"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure."
— Milan Kundera

"When will my country die for me?"
— Grace Slick

"Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?"
— Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business)

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson