The hardest part about ‘libertarian’ is learning how to roll your eyes
– Ze Frank
Politics makes artists stupid.
– Terry Teachout reviews the Rachel Corrie play
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October 26th, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
 October 23rd, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
If it is to survive, democracy must recognise that it is not the fountainhead of justice and that it needs to acknowledge a conception of justice which does not necessarily manifest itself in the popular view on every particular issue – Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty October 22nd, 2006 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
The constitution and laws of a State are rarely attacked from the front; it is against secret and gradual attacks that a Nation must chiefly guard. Sudden resolutions strike men’s imagination; their history is written, and their secret sources made known; but changes are overlooked when they come about insensibly by a series of steps which are scarcely noted. One would do great service to Nations by showing from history how many States have thus changed their whole nature and lost their original constitution. – Emmerich de Vattel, The Laws of Nations or Principles of Natural Law, 1758 October 21st, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
With our troops safely back, the people of Iraq can then begin building a faith-based society emphasizing the same traditional values that motivate conservatives like you: women at home, prayer in school, capital punishment for homos. – Howard Dean (channelled by blogging über-wit Iowahawk) is sniffing out votes in unlikely places. October 19th, 2006 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
The quote of the day slot is already taken, but this would have been my choice, had the choice still been mine to make:
That’s from Sir Alan (A.P.) Herbert. Samizdata mostly manages to avoid ghastly hushes. October 18th, 2006 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
I cannot have a situation where businesses close haphazardly. – Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme about the Sub-Post Office network, and neatly demonstrating the dirigiste mentality of the Scottish Raj October 18th, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
If reality contradicts your thoughts, that’s delusion. If your thoughts contradict your actions, that’s madness. If reality contradicts your actions, that’s defeat, frustration, self-destruction. And no sane being wants delusion, madness and destruction. – From the Golden Transcendence, John C. Wright, page 212 October 16th, 2006 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Brooke’s main achievement seems to have been in preventing Churchill from losing the war. – Patrick Crozier writes about Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke’s War Diaries October 11th, 2006 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 10th, 2006 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
Via the excellent India Uncut, I reproduce this shortest – and most revealing – of short stories in its entirety:
It is a partition-era tale, but still remarkably relevant today – it has been institutionalised and multiplied across society. October 8th, 2006 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. – Hubert H. Humphrey Not everything left-liberals say is nonsense. October 8th, 2006 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
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