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Antonio Gramsci Quotes on Politics

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, and a founder of the Italian Communist Party. This page collects quotes attributed to Antonio Gramsci on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • 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.”

  • Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:

    “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

  • Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:

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

  • Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:

    “To tell the truth is revolutionary.”

  • Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:

    “Indifference is the dead weight of history.”