The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.