silogismos

Todas as reformas na educação foram feitas contra os professores e a muito custo ■ Qualquer reforma na educação tem que ser feita contra os professores e a muito custo ■ É boa uma má reforma, desde que feita contra os professores e a muito custo.

o gosto dos outros

O agente sentara-se mesmo ao lado, no lugar vago à mesa do refeitório. Se dúvidas restassem quanto à sua ocupação, o telemóvel trataria de as dissipar. Entre o murmúrio das conversas e o barulho incerto de pratos e talheres soou, como se aprisionada numa manteigueira, a banda sonora de "O Bom, o Mau e o Vilão".

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contra-reforma

"Ai de quem se afirme contra a inevitabilidade de reformas! Terá sobre si o estigma do imobilismo ou, pior, da conservação de privilégios próprios. Há um novo e pesado maniqueismo na sociedade portuguesa: de um lado a mudança, do outro a prudência. O rolo compressor da primeira é a imagem invertida do medo que habita a segunda. Mudar para quê? Conservar o quê? São as duas perguntas mais difíceis do nosso tempo. O discernimento é o quê?"

(Palombella Rossa, num certo março de 2008)

demo

Here you can see respectable folk ■ Keeping to God's own laws ■ So far he hasn't taken heed ■ You who sit safe and warm indoors ■ Help to relieve our bitter need ■ How virtuously we had begun ■ The world however did not wait ■ But soon observed what followed on ■ It's fear of god that brought us to that state ■ How fortunate the man with none

(Dead Can Dance, How fortunate the man with none, Into the Labyrinth, 1993)

socrates

You heard of honest Socrates ■ The man who never lied ■ They weren't so grateful as you'd think ■ Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried ■ And handed him the poisoned drink ■ How honest was the people's noble son ■ The world however did not wait ■ But soon observed what followed on ■ It's honesty that brought him to that state ■ How fortunate the man with none

(Dead Can Dance, How fortunate the man with none, Into the Labyrinth, 1993)

caesar

You saw courageous Caesar next ■ You know what he became ■ They deified him in his life ■ Then had him murdered just the same ■ And as they raised the fatal knife ■ How loud he cried: you too my son! ■ The world however did not wait ■ But soon observed what followed on ■ It's courage that had brought him to that state ■ How fortunate the man with none

(Dead Can Dance, How fortunate the man with none, Into the Labyrinth, 1993)

salomon

You saw sagacious Solomon ■ You know what came of him ■ To him complexities seemed plain ■ He cursed the hour that gave birth to him ■ And saw that everything was vain ■ How great and wise was Solomon ■ The world however did not wait ■ But soon observed what followed on ■ It's wisdom that had brought him to this state ■ How fortunate the man with none

(Dead Can Dance, How fortunate the man with none, Into the Labyrinth, 1993)