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Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.
– Bertrand Russell

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  1. Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. – Bertrand Russell
  2. – Murder is a sin. It’s a sin in Judaism, it’s a sin in Christianity, it’s a sin in Islam and every other-¦- I’ll decide what’s a sin. – Robert Ferrigno
  3. Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  4. The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
  5. To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
  6. All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments. – Bertrand Russell
  7. The whole conception of ‘sin’ is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature. – Bertrand Russell
  8. Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue. – Thomas Jefferson
  9. Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. – Howard Zinn
  10. There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing. – Shannon Huffman Polson
  11. Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
  12. Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  13. Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  14. Sexual liberation is the root of all liberation. – JAdam Snyder
  15. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, – William Shakespeare
  16. for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. – William J Federer
  17. Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality. – Debasish Mridha
  18. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare
  19. It is not, in Calvin’s view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin. – Russell D Moore
  20. Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro’ the rye,Gin a body kiss a body-” Need a body cry? – Robert Burns
  21. We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. – Bertrand Russell
  22. Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know – Bertrand Russell
  23. Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. – Bertrand Russell
  24. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell
  25. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. – Bertrand Russell
  26. Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children. – Bertrand Russell
  27. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are ????sure while the intelligent are full of doubt. – Bertrand Russell
  28. All human activity is prompted by desire. – Bertrand Russell
  29. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. – Bertrand Russell
  30. The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Bertrand Russell
  31. Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. – Bertrand Russell
  32. Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. – Bertrand Russell
  33. [T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. – Bertrand Russell
  34. Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. – Bertrand Russell
  35. Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached. – Bertrand Russell
  36. Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. – Bertrand Russell
  37. In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable. – Bertrand Russell
  38. Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society – Bertrand Russell
  39. Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – Bertrand Russell
  40. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. – Bertrand Russell

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