"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." - Jean Jacques Rousseau, 'The Social Contract'

"The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry." - HG Wells, philosopher and science fiction author

Perhaps Malaysia could borrow from the slogan of American toy corporation Toys-R-Us Malaysia in composing an axiom for the social contract - 'Myths are us'.