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

If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.
– Benjamin Franklin

Samizdata slogan of the day

You are the perfect example of a man too lazy to fail
– Kristine Blauser Scalzi

Let’s hear it for successful indolence! Yeah!

Samizdata slogan of the day

There is no problem in the world today that could not be made much worse by a UN conference
– Mark Steyn

Samizdata slogan of the day

Samizdata slogan of the day

Bloggers may not be able to change the way newspapers are written, but we can change the way people read them
– Perry de Havilland

Samizdata slogan of the day

We make war that we may live in peace.
-Aristotle

Samizdata slogan of the day

If you can’t see through the absinthe, don’t drink it
-Adriana Cronin

Samizdata slogan of the day

If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams

Samizdata slogan of the day

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you have just bombed
– Unknown

Samizdata slogan of the day

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
-Winston Churchill, June 4th 1940

Samizdata slogan of the day

A landlord no longer feels suprised at being compelled to keep a tenant; an employer is no less used to having to raise the wages of his employees in virtue of the decrees of Power. Nowadays it is understood that our subjective rights are precarious and at the good pleasure of authority
– Bertrand de Jouvenel Sovereignty

Samizdata slogan of the day

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
– J.S. Mill, On Liberty

Samizdata slogan of the day

Money is better than poverty if only for financial reasons.
– Woody Allen