Frases de Annie Wood Besant

Annie Wood Besant foi uma escritora, teósofa, erudita, militante socialista, maçom, ativista e defensora dos direitos das mulheres, uma das mais notáveis oradoras da sua época e autora de uma vasta obra literária sobre Teosofia. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Outubro 1847 – 20. Setembro 1933
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Annie Wood Besant: Frases em inglês

“That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.”

The immediate future: Lectures delivered in Queen's Hall, London, 1911 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=VGNbAAAAMAAJ, p. 32

“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.”

Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893) https://books.google.com/books?id=uBA3AQAAMAAJ, p. 357; 3rd edition (1908) https://books.google.com/books?id=5zNPAQAAMAAJ&pg, p. 357

“A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.”

Annie Besant the Life and Teachings of Muhammad (the Prophet of Islam) http://www.scribd.com/doc/178209678/Annie-Besant-the-Life-and-Teachings-of-Muhammad-the-Prophet-of-Islam

“The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.”

Essays on Indian Freedom Movement http://books.google.co.in/books?id=3kP5AgYYV5AC&pg=PA97, p. 97

“Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.”

Fonte: Theosophical Review, Volume 17 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=nv8LAAAAIAAJ, p. 139
Fonte: https://www.theosophy.world/resource/ebooks/karma-annie-besant Karma

“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”

Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Volume 100 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=xPsvAQAAIAAJ, p. 757

“It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.”

Cultural and Religious Heritage of India: Islam http://books.google.co.in/books?id=e2yvoujPJCYC&pg=PA109, p. 109