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

Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism the equal distribution of misery
– Winston S. Churchill

Samizdata slogan of the day

It was not so much ‘love at first sight’ as ‘love at first philosophical exchange’
– Perry de Havilland

Samizdata slogan of the day

It is said that the civilized man seeks out good and intelligent company, so that by learned discourse, he may rise above the savage, and be closer to God. Personally however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me that I’m best.
– Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson)

Samizdata slogan of the day

Why blog when you can snog?
– An un-named blogger

Samizdata slogan of the day

In all your dealings with them you must always try pitching your voice an octave higher. Generalise as long as the words last. Don’t just defend yourself, your own narrow little sector; set out to shatter their whole system!
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn (The Oak and the Calf)

Samizdata slogan of the day

I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

– (if you don’t know who said this, you are obviously a visiting space alien)

Samizdata slogan of the day

To not vote in an election is to vote for civil society and against the state itself
– Perry de Havilland

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