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

The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated. This is very exciting and has delighted generations of socialist zealots. But it has no more claim to be a scientific projection than an astrologer’s almanac.
– Paul Johnson, discussing Karl Marx

Samizdata slogan of the day

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies
-Marshal de Villares

Harry Browne comes to mind

Samizdata slogan of the day

‘Please do not ask for credit as a kick in the bollocks often offends’
– Seen on a notice behind a bar in a less than salubrious part of London last night.

It is good to see the private sector doing its part in discouraging unwise accumulation of debt in this era of absurdly low interest rates

Samizdata slogan of the day

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
– William Pitt

Samizdata slogan of the day

There are two Englands…and Ted Heath is from the other one
– James Bennett

Samizdata slogan of the day

Men should be what they seem.
– William Shakespeare, “Othello” act III scene III

Samizdata slogan of the day

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation,
as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man’s head off
-Charles Dickens (The Pickwick Papers)

Samizdata slogan of the day

Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism the equal distribution of misery
– Winston S. Churchill

Samizdata slogan of the day

It was not so much ‘love at first sight’ as ‘love at first philosophical exchange’
– Perry de Havilland

Samizdata slogan of the day

It is said that the civilized man seeks out good and intelligent company, so that by learned discourse, he may rise above the savage, and be closer to God. Personally however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me that I’m best.
– Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson)

Samizdata slogan of the day

Why blog when you can snog?
– An un-named blogger

Now you listen to me little Missy!

Here is a picture of the intelligent and attractive Missy Schwartz. Sigh