« There is a overriding principle. This principle is that the powerful and the privileged must be able to do what they want (in the name, of course, of noble goals). Its corollary is that people's sovereignty and democratic rights must disappear... (page 48) »

« The most important thing, I think, was certainly the dismantling of the Bretton Woods system by the United States, England, and others in the early 1970s. This system was designed by the United States and England in the 1940s. At that time social assistance programmes and radical democratic measures enjoyed overwhelming popular support. It was partly for these reasons that the Bretton Woods system of the mid-1940s regulated exchange rates and allowed for the control of cash flows. The idea was to put an end to ruinous and harmful speculation and to limit capital flight. The reasons were well understood and clearly articulated - the free flow of capital establishes what is sometimes called a "virtual parliament" of global capital, which has veto power over government policies that it deems irrational. These include labour law, education or health programmes, or efforts to stimulate the economy; in fact, anything that is likely to help people, not to profit (and therefore irrational in the technical sense). »

« There are no rules that "shorten" sentences, rather there are operations that form superficial structures from the underlying deep structures `...`. To show that grammatical transformations are "the simplest", it must therefore be demonstrated that the "optima" evaluation system should have ingested a chain of symbols and determine its surface surface, its underlying deep structure and the sequence of transformational operations that connect them. »