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• But when he [the people's champion] has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty
  and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader....
• Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic...
• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
  People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point B are so keen to get there....
• Fear always springs from ignorance.
• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
  People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there....
• Imagine that we had a way of sending actors from Broadway to Hollywood that involved putting them in cars and driving them across the country.
  Some of these cars crashed, killing the poor actors....
• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book X. 601B...