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• The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
  ... The new style, gradually gaining a lodgement, quitely insinuates itself into manners and customs, and from it ....
• 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...
• Happiness is a state of mind. Not happy? Change your mind.
• The project engineer will change the design to suit the state-of-the-art.
• The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, whether at home or abroad
  hey may be allowed to lie for the good of the State. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic...
• Bureaucrats do not change the course of the ship of state. They merely adjust the compass.
• Bureocrats do not change the course of the ship of state. They merely adjust the compass.
• When we talk about property, state, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don't want any of them.
• 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....