Antonio Gramsci Quotes
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, and a founder of the Italian Communist Party. Arrested by Mussolini's regime in 1926, he spent the last decade of his life in prison, where he composed the Prison Notebooks, more than three thousand pages of fragmentary writing on politics, philosophy, history, and culture. The quotes below are attributed to Antonio Gramsci, organized by topic.
Antonio Gramsci on Knowledge
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.”
Antonio Gramsci on Mind
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is.”
Antonio Gramsci on Politics
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“Indifference is the dead weight of history.”
Antonio Gramsci on Time
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
Antonio Gramsci on Truth
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”