All Antonio Gramsci Quotes
- 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… According
- Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of… Capturing
- History is at once freedom and necessity. Freedom
- 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… Active
- 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… Aim
- Telling the truth is always revolutionary 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… All
- 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… Becomes
- 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,… Consciousness
- The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters Born
- I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die. Cell
- Indifference is the dead weight of history. Dead
- 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… Accept
- The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. Arise
- 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,… Acquire
- 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… Always Refused
- 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… Ability
- 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… Becomes
- 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… Always Stands
- 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… Cannot Always
- I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking… Acquisition
- The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. Becoming
- To tell the truth is revolutionary. Inspirational
- I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Intelligence
- Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. Inspirational