Antonio Gramsci Quotes

Telling the truth is always revolutionary.

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

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

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

Every State is a dictatorship.

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

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

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

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

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

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

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.