Sublime

Human nature is hunted and has fled into sanctuary.

Federal law requires the EPA to prove that the cost of removing a contaminant doesn’t exceed its benefits (deaths averted, that is, with a human life valued at $6.1 million).

in the old age of our society, in a mood dangerously morbid, in a spirit only too ready to take the exception instead of the rule. If we find creatures that are half human, we may only too possibly make them an excuse for being half-human ourselves.

At the same time, the experiment of having government keep its hands off the economy altogether in an industrial society, along the lines proposed by a great many free market proponents these days, received an equally thorough test, and failed just as dismally. In America that test ran from the end of the Civil War into the first decade of the

Dr Needleman demonstrated that a clear association existed between exposure to lead and serious health hazards; his efforts over the course of many years finally resulted in the removal of lead from the manufacture of most motor fuels and most paints.

Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.

he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace,

The idea of the Citizen is that his individual human nature shall be constantly and creatively active in altering the State. The Germans are right in regarding the idea as dangerously revolutionary. Every Citizen is a revolution. That is, he destroys, devours and adapts his environment to the extent of his own thought and conscience.

His first action on reelection was to set about removing all treasonous works from the city’s schools and libraries. Thompson appointed a theater owner and former billboard changer named Sport Hermann to purge the city’s institutions of any works that were less than “100 percent American.” Hermann appointed a body called the Patriots’ League to