« Markets do not provide the population with "what they want" but rather "what they want in the context of what pays the most for producers or which most favours their political interests". »

« When the United States invades and occupies the countries bordering Iran, it is called "stabilizing"; but when it is Iran that tries to extend its influence over its border countries, it "destabilizes" the region. It's the most common formula. In other words, it means that the world belongs to the United States. And when you don't follow their orders, the owner becomes aggressive. »

« Thus Wilhelm von Humboldt . . . strongly maintained that we would find, underpinning all human language, a universal system that simply expresses the unique intellectual attributes of man. For this reason, it was possible to defend the rationalist idea that language is not really learned - certainly not taught - but rather develops "from within" in an essentially predetermined way, when the appropriate environmental conditions are met. You can't really teach a first language, he argued, but you can only "provide the thread in which it will develop of your own free will" through processes closer to maturation than to learning. »