History is at once freedom and necessity.

- Antonio Gramsci

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

- Antonio Gramsci

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

- Antonio Gramsci

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via i…

- Antonio Gramsci

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, un…

- Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

- Antonio Gramsci

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

- Antonio Gramsci

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

- Antonio Gramsci

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

- Antonio Gramsci