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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

A message to our American readers…

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Samizdata quote of the day

No interrupting when I am interrupting!
– Adriana Cronin

Samizdata quote of the day

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

Some time a picture is worth a thousand words…

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Samizdata quote of the day

If this bothers you, please sod off and go read Atrios or Kos
Instapundit

Samizdata quote of the day

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

Samizdata quote of the day

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

Samizdata quote of the day

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

Samizdata quote of the day

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
– Jacques Derrida

Er, yeah, whatever Jack…

Samizdata quote of the day

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…)

Samizdata quote of the day

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)

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Money can not buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
– Spike Milligan