“Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete”
“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.”
“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.”
“Blank state and I am that Caucasian in slavery America fighting for Abolition. I have to fight for something that didn’t directly affect me in value-communal (As differentiated from worth in Chapter Fourteen.) I have to shut the material communal out to gain this state. The Blank State is powerful in this sense, it recognizes and celebrates first, essence, as any blank state must to initiate existence as consciousness, whether good or bad.”
“There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.”
“One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace”