Quotes of Antonio Gramsci - somelinesforyou

“ The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality? ”

- Antonio Gramsci

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

- Antonio Gramsci

“ I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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

“ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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… ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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… ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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

“ I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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… ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

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

- Antonio Gramsci

“ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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… ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. 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: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable… ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. ”

- Antonio Gramsci

“ 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… ”

- Antonio Gramsci
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