Gramsci's Quotes

To tell the truth is revolutionary. — Antonio Gramsci

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

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. — 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

I like Gramsci. He's an important person. — Noam Chomsky

Every State is a dictatorship. — Antonio Gramsci

Indifference is the dead weight of history. — Antonio Gramsci

Telling the truth is always revolutionary — Antonio Gramsci

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. — Antonio Gramsci

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. — Antonio Gramsci

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci

I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent — Antonio Gramsci

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like. — Antonio Gramsci

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy. — Antonio Gramsci

Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation. — Antonio Gramsci

Man is above all else mind, consciousness
that is, he is a product of history, not of nature. — Antonio Gramsci

History is at once freedom and necessity. — Antonio Gramsci

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

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory. — Antonio Gramsci

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters — Antonio Gramsci

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born — Antonio Gramsci

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned — Antonio Gramsci

To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, cynicism of intellect; promise of the present. — Bill Grigsby

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

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die. — Antonio Gramsci