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]

Samizdata slogan of the day

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.
– Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) in classic TV show The Prisoner

Samizdata slogan of the day

The debate over guns is a clash of cultures, a confrontation of different kinds of character, a disagreement over social philosophy and even, though few notice this, over free will and determinism. The contending factions don’t need guns to detest each other. They would anyway.
Fred Reed

Samizdata slogan of the day

A few honest men are better than numbers
– Oliver Cromwell

Samizdata slogan of the day

Delectable! Her derriere is the very apogee of nadirs
– Overheard recently by Samizdata Illuminatus

Samizdata slogan of the day

They have an engine called the Press, whereby the people are deceived.
– C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, p. 292

Samizdata slogan of the day

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual
– Thomas Jefferson

Samizdata slogan of the day

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
– G. K. Chesterton

The Illuminatus has eyes everywhere


(Photo: D. Amon)

…but who can help me identify the arcane Techno-mage, Transterrestrialist, Anglosphericaloid and, er, Pundit, who make up this sinister cabal before whom the world trembles?

Samizdata slogan of the day

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
– Hillare Belloc

Samizdata slogan of the day

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
– John C. Calhoun

Samizdata slogan of the day

Labour takes money from Sun readers and gives it to Guardian readers, who then decide how best it should be spent.
– Richard Littlejohn

Samizdata slogan of the day

Everyone wants peace – and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.
– Miles Kingston