O fundamentalismo é a tradição encostada à parede. É a tradição que se defende à maneira tradicional - através da referência à validade do ritual - num mundo globalizante que exige conhecer as razões. Portanto, o fundamentalismo não tem nada a ver com o contexto das crenças, religiosas ou outras. O que interessa é a forma como a verdade das crenças é defendida ou afirmada. (55) - Anthony Giddens
The closest thing we have to a predictive model of human large-scale behavior is a science called economics, and economics teaches us that wealth-creation is maximized when the five-year plans, ten-year plans, and (one must assume) the thousand-year 'Seldon Plans' are ignored and free men and free markets are best left to muddle through on their own. - John C. Wright
Since the objects of imitation are men in action, and these men must be either of a higher or a lower type (for moral character mainly answers to these divisions, goodness and badness being the distinguishing marks of moral differences), it follows that we must represent men either as better than in real life, or as worse, or as they are. It is the same in painting. - Aristóteles
