Antonio Gramsci Quotes

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• If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom…
• Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of…
• History is at once freedom and necessity.
• Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces…
• The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these…
• Telling the truth is always revolutionary
• After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely…
• A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of…
• The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date,…
• The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters
• I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
• Indifference is the dead weight of history.
• Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own…
• The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
• Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order,…
• I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now…
• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline…
• One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a…
• Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into…
• The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be…

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