Annie Besant Quotes

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

Annie Besant

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• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Fire

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • My Life

• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Like
  • TV
  • Medium

• I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Interest
  • Soldier
  • Fact

• The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?

  

  Rae Carson
  • Being
  • Awesome
  • Common

• An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Desire
  • Childhood
  • Belief

• There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Said
  • Lot

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Work
  • American
  • Culture

• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  

  Tacitus
  • Crime
  • Blessing
  • Initiative

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• If you're not working, you might as well be dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle

• so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Friend
  • Moral
  • Stupid

• All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• Either you are a man of unusual ability, Thorn, or a man with a rather inadequate grasp of human nature. I just hope it’s the former.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Nature
  • Hope

• It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

  

  Sly Stone

• It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Witness

• What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

  

  Amira Hass
  • Power
  • Journalism
  • Monitor

• My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest cheerleader.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Up
  • She
  • Growing

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

  

  Annie Besant