Antonio Gramsci Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“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.”
Prison Notebooks -
“History teaches, but it has no pupils.”
Letter from Prison (21 June 1919), translated by Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh University Student Publications . -
“History is at once freedom and necessity.”
Selections from the Prison Notebooks(1971) -
“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).”
Selections from the Prison Notebooks(1971)