All Quotes by Antonio Gramsci
“To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.”
“History teaches, but it has no pupils.”
“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
“All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.”
“Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.”
“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 of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).”
“My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.”
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”