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 best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
– Sir Winston Churchill

Samizdata slogan of the day

No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
– Judge Gideon J. Tucker

Samizdata slogan of the day

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
– Dennis Wholey

Samizdata slogan of the day

Nobody is at liberty to attack several property and to say that he values civilisation. The history of the two cannot be disentangled
– Henry Sumner Maine

Samizdata slogan of the day

We do not wish our ancient freedom and the decent tolerant civilisation we have preserved in this island to hang upon a rotten thread.
– Winston Churchill, September 1935

Samizdata slogan of the day

“Socialism in its contemporary watered down form is little more than envy disguised as principle.”
-Martin Pot, the Institut Héraclite

Samizdata slogan of the day

It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.
– Wilfred Trotter

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

All hail the Web. And power to the people – at least those I approve of.
– Michael of 2 Blowhards, Aug 17, in a posting about the artistic significance of amazon.com

Get Your Priorities Right

“I don’t mind keeping the bunny-huggers happy so long as it doesn’t cost me a penny.”

– Brian Aldridge, the Sage of Ambridge. Pity he’s such a John Major.

Samizdata slogan of the day

A few honest men are better than numbers
– Oliver Cromwell