I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
