Antonio Gramsci

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for…

— Antonio Gramsci

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

— Antonio Gramsci

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

— Antonio Gramsci

How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has…

— Antonio Gramsci

“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist…

— Antonio Gramsci

The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form,…

— Antonio Gramsci

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

— Antonio Gramsci

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which…

— Antonio Gramsci

“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed…

— Antonio Gramsci

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

— Antonio Gramsci

From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need…

— Antonio Gramsci

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

— Antonio Gramsci

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

— Antonio Gramsci

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send…

— Antonio Gramsci

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific…

— Antonio Gramsci

“Verus Quid Factum”

— Antonio Gramsci

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

— Antonio Gramsci

Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.

— Antonio Gramsci

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

— Antonio Gramsci

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

— Antonio Gramsci

“I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a…

— Antonio Gramsci

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a…

— Antonio Gramsci

“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”

— Antonio Gramsci

“The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable…

— Antonio Gramsci

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately…

— Antonio Gramsci