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]
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If you can’t see through the absinthe, don’t drink it
-Adriana Cronin
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
It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you have just bombed
– Unknown
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
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
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
– J.S. Mill, On Liberty
Money is better than poverty if only for financial reasons.
– Woody Allen
If somebody starts shooting a gun at me, don’t expect me to defend myself with a condiment.
– Steve Daniels on pepper spray
Note: even pepper spray is illegal in the UK
As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man.
– Senor Ferrari (Sydney Greenstreet) in “Casablanca”
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied
– Claud Cockburn (1904-1981)
Whatever you can provide yourself with to secure protection from men is a natural good
– Epicurus
A tip of the kevlar battlebowler to Dave Tepper
The more free a society the wealthier it becomes. Guns cost money. Wealthy societies can afford lots of guns. Mao was wrong. All political power comes out of a cash register, not the barrel of a gun.
– Perry de Havilland
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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