Albert Mckay

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. David Bowie If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. —C.S. Lewis The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Everything unconditional belongs in pathology. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. When you make peace with authority, you become authority. The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. Thucydides I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to other is relatively the exception. Nietzsche If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Vladimir Lenin I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness. But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had - power. Thus Spoke Zarathustra Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. Nietzsche Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Nietzsche The formulation of a problem is often more essential than it's solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. Einstein