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• 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...
• Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body
  but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind....
• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II. 369C...
• Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich, each at war with the othe
  and in either division there are smaller ones -- you would make a great mistake if you treated them as single states....
• Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book VIII. 558...
• In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
  -- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book IX, 571d...
• The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
• No one has died an atheist. -- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Bk. X, 888
• The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.
  ... This and no other is the root from which tyranny springs....