[...] if 'the weak suffer what they must', their very capacity, let alone willingness, to reproduce the power of the strong declines precipitiously.
on why Volcker would have opted to fix Bretton Woods (if he had the choice)
put another way, by Marquis de Condorcet later on the page, "real power lies not with the oppressors but with the oppressed" (though it's a bit misleading)