Antonio Gramsci

"One cannot have cultural life without certain material preconditions being satisfied."

"The new prince must be built up as the interpreter of the deepest wishes of the people."

"Everyone is a philosopher, even if unconsciously so."

"The relationship between the subaltern group and the ruling group becomes mediated through ideology."

"Tradition and innovation must be held together in a unity of creative tension."

"The study of philosophy is not separate from the study of history and politics."

"All history is a history of class struggle interpreted through the lens of culture and ideology."

"Passive revolution occurs when the ruling class adapts itself to new conditions without changing its fundamental nature."

"One should aspire to be a person of culture and engage in the life of society actively."

"Language itself is a storehouse of simplified judgments and historical categories."

"The exercise of hegemony requires constant renewal of consent from those ruled."

"Cultural movements must be rooted in the real economic conditions of people's lives."

"The organic intellectual must rise from the working class itself, not be imposed from above."

"Every man is a king in his own right when he acts consciously in history."

"The people must develop their own national-popular culture as an expression of their will."

"Fascism represents a rupture in the social order through fear and irrationality."

"To understand a concept, one must understand the totality of relations that produced it."

"The church has been historically tied to the ruling classes as an apparatus of hegemony."

"A revolutionary class must create a new moral and intellectual order."

"The problem is not to replace one tyranny with another, but to create freedom collectively."

"Pessimism as a philosophy is paralyzing; only the will to act creates possibility."

"Historical consciousness is the ability to see oneself as a product of history and a maker of it."

"The state is not just the government apparatus but extends through civil society institutions."

"Every crisis contains the seeds of new possibilities and new forms of organization."

"Culture is not a fixed entity but a contested terrain where meanings are struggled over."

"The masses must be educated to become the architects of their own liberation."

"Commitment to a cause requires the whole person, not just the mind but the will and emotions."

"National-popular literature must express the aspirations of the people, not the elite."

"The reproduction of ideology happens through schools, media, and all cultural institutions."

"One cannot understand the present without grasping the weight of the past upon it."