85 Quotes by Antonio Gramsci


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    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, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality

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    What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

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

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    Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

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    The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

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

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    The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.

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