How we cite our quotes: (Record.Paragraph)
Quote #1
A few steps more and we will be within reach of our ideal. The ideal (it's clear) is to be found where nothing happens. (6.1)
The dream here is one espoused by the State, a lack of anything unplanned and unanticipated. How does that differ from the dreams of the rebels?
Quote #2
But we, people of today, we know all too well that dreaming is a serious mental disease. (7.2)
And yet the ambitions of space travel represent a kind of dream: the dream of spreading the State's ideology to other planets. The State is unaware of this irony, which may explain why the rebels eventually have a fair amount of success.
Quote #3
Our gods are here, below, with us—in the Bureau, in the kitchen, in the workshop, in the latrine. Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours. (12.13)
We're still in the State's head here, with an expression of power to reach an ideal. Granted, the idea is horrifying to us, but the firmness of this belief—this plan they're making—gives the State a great deal of power.