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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Money is better than poverty if only for financial reasons.
– Woody Allen
If somebody starts shooting a gun at me, don’t expect me to defend myself with a condiment.
– Steve Daniels on pepper spray
Note: even pepper spray is illegal in the UK
As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man.
– Senor Ferrari (Sydney Greenstreet) in “Casablanca”
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied
– Claud Cockburn (1904-1981)
I have no idea if this is a pukka story but it certainly looks interesting. Anyone out there have a take on this?
Whatever you can provide yourself with to secure protection from men is a natural good
– Epicurus
A tip of the kevlar battlebowler to Dave Tepper
The more free a society the wealthier it becomes. Guns cost money. Wealthy societies can afford lots of guns. Mao was wrong. All political power comes out of a cash register, not the barrel of a gun.
– Perry de Havilland
We believe in God and the Mauser
– Boer saying circa 1895
Money can’t buy you friends, but it can buy you a better class of enemy
– Spike Milligan
Typically, one attacks beliefs as ‘simple’ when it isn’t feasible to attack them as ‘wrong’.
– Glenn Reynolds
The Sex Pistols are as English as the Malvern Hills
-Patrick Crozier
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
– Lord Acton
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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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