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Antonio Gramsci Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the italian politician Antonio Gramsci on topics like life, prison, children

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

    — Antonio Gramsci on optimism
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  • I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

    — Antonio Gramsci on prison
    2
  • 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...

    — Antonio Gramsci on children
    1
  • If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

    — Antonio Gramsci on actions
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  • My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

    — Antonio Gramsci on beat
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  • I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.

    — Antonio Gramsci on dissent
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  • 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.

    — Antonio Gramsci on personality
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  • To tell the truth is revolutionary.

    — Antonio Gramsci on revolutionary
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  • About Antonio Gramsci

    Name Antonio Gramsci
    Quotes 8 quotations
    Nationality Italian
    Profession Politician
    Birthday October 16
    About Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political theorist, linguist and philosopher. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. His writings are heavily concerned with the analysis of culture and political leadership and he is notable as a highly original thinker within the Marxist tradition.
    Top topics life, prison, children, puberty, bottom

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