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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
– Margaret Thatcher

Samizdata slogan of the day

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
– Vaclav Havel

Samizdata slogan of the day

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant.
– Sun Tzu

Samizdata slogan of the day

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
– Conor Cruise O’Brien

Samizdata slogan of the day

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
– Margaret Thatcher

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