85 Quotes by Antonio Gramsci

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work...

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

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.

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