If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.