Antonio Gramsci

"Tradition is the illusion of permanence in a world of constant change."

"The masses have a profound capacity for understanding their own conditions."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means, but also its failure."

"Every person is an intellectual, though not all are recognized as such."

"The future depends not on fate but on the choices we make today."

"To love the people is to educate them; to educate them is to liberate them."

"The real solution to the problem of humanity lies in creative action."

"Hegemony is never simply imposed; it is constantly negotiated and contested."

"An intellectual who is not engaged in the struggles of his time is not truly an intellectual."

"The worker must become the architect of his own liberation."

"History is not made by the dead; it is made by the living in struggle."

"The most dangerous thing is the belief that we can remain neutral in times of injustice."

"Consciousness is not something that exists in the individual mind but in social practice."

"To understand society, one must examine the relations of power within it."

"The language we speak contains the ideology we have been taught to accept."

"Progress is not inevitable; it is the result of constant struggle and effort."

"The capacity to suffer is the capacity to resist and to grow."

"Education must teach people not what to think but how to think."

"Every moment of silence in the face of injustice is a moment lost to freedom."