We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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No interrupting when I am interrupting!
– Adriana Cronin
What makes dictators dictators is not that they don’t believe in the power of the majority but that they don’t believe in the rights of the individual.
– Adriana Cronin
If this bothers you, please sod off and go read Atrios or Kos
– Instapundit
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
– Frédéric Bastiat
I won’t live in a country where people aren’t allowed to call me a fag
– Brian Tiemann
With thanks to Steven Den Beste for the pointer
It is harder to start up a new radio station in Britain than it is to open a Zionist Gay Bar in Riyadh
– David Carr
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
– Jacques Derrida
Er, yeah, whatever Jack…
Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.
– Mae West
(I doubt she had politics in mind but…)
You said, “but.” I’ve put my finger on the whole trouble. You’re a “but” man. Don’t say, “but.” That little word “but” is the difference between success and failure. Henry Ford said, “I’m going to invent the automobile,” and Arthur T. Flanken said, “But . . .”
– Sgt. Ernie Bilko (The Phil Silvers Show)
Money can not buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
– Spike Milligan
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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