Gramsci, Antonio

"Education is the practice of freedom."

"Knowledge is power only when it is shared."

"Time is the substance through which history unfolds."

"Truth emerges from the clash of opposing ideas."

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

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

"All men are intellectuals in some sense, but not all men have the function of intellectuals in society."

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical process to date."

"Common sense is not something rigid and immobile, but is continually transforming itself."

"Every relationship of hegemony is a relationship of teaching."

"State is the entire complex of practical and theoretical activities with which the ruling class maintains its dominance."

"The intellectuals are the dominant group's deputies in the exercise of the subaltern functions of social hegemony and political government."

"One should be able to see all history as consisting of a series of peaceful and violent struggles for power among different groups or classes."

"Civil society is the ensemble of organisms commonly called 'private'."

"The philosophy of praxis is the modern form of materialism."

"Culture is a conception of life and its value; it is a norm of conduct."

"A man may lack everything but if he keeps his desires and illusions, he is rich."

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

"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

"The difference between the socialist and the peasant is that the peasant does not understand class contradictions."

"Every man is a philosopher, though perhaps not always aware of it."

"National-popular culture does not yet exist in most European countries."

"The relationship between intellectuals and the masses is mediated by culture and tradition."

"The capitalist state is based on the consensus of the governed and their active participation in governance."

"One must have clear ideas and be willing to use force when necessary."

"The people are not a monolithic entity but rather divided by competing interests and ideologies."

"Tradition is the democratic form of culture transmission."

"The subordinate classes are always seeking new forms of consciousness."

"Industrial production has created new forms of consciousness among workers."