"The institutions of political society "bound new fetters on the poor and gave new powers to the rich; irretrievably destroyed natural liberty, fixed… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Konunun içyüzünü, bildiklerimi yalnızca adalet kurallarına göre kullancak denli biliyor muyum? Dahası var; başkalarına borçlu bulunduklarımızı, yalnızca gerçeğe borçlu bulunduklarımızı gereğince düşündüm mü? Birini aldatırken zarara düşürmezsem, bu, kendime zarar vermiyorum demek midir? Kusursuz olmak için haksızlık etmemek yeter mi?

On the contrary, the citizen always in motion, is perpetually sweating and toiling, and racking his brains to find out occupations still more laborious: He continues a drudge to his last minute; nay, he courts death to be able to live, or renounces life to acquire immortality. He cringes to men in power whom he hates, and to rich men whom he despises; he sticks at nothing to have the honour of serving them; he is not ashamed to value himself on his own weakness and the protection they afford him; and proud of his chains, he speaks with disdain of those who have not the honour of being the partner of his bondage.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?