Gramsci, Antonio

"The organic intellectual is born from within the working class itself."

"Language is a totality of determined notions and concepts, not merely words."

"The factory is the model for all modern institutions of the subordinate classes."

"Literature and art are the expression of the people's spiritual life."

"Education is the process of creating intellectuals of a new type."

"The hegemony of one group is achieved through both force and consent."

"Religion is a form of false consciousness that must be overcome through education."

"The role of the intellectual is to make the implicit explicit."

"Workers must develop their own organic intellectuals to lead the struggle for change."

"History is not predetermined but is the product of human struggle and will."

"The masses are capable of understanding complex philosophical ideas if properly taught."

"National identity is constructed through cultural struggle and negotiation."

"The subordinate must become aware of their subordination to achieve liberation."

"Moral philosophy without a material basis is merely ideology."

"The people create culture through their daily lived experiences and struggles."

"Each period of history has its own form of common sense and folklore."

"The concept of the state must be enlarged to include civil society."

"Tradition is not static but is continuously reinvented by living peoples."

"The battle for new consciousness is fought in the realm of culture and ideas."

"Hegemony requires the active participation and consensus of the subordinate classes."

"The intellectuals who come from the working class have a special responsibility to their origin."

"Understanding requires both emotional and intellectual engagement with reality."

"The revolutionary must be a person of culture as well as action."

"Civil society is the terrain where different groups struggle for hegemony."

"Common people are capable of profound philosophical thought and reflection."

"The state is not merely a repressive apparatus but also a site of consensus building."

"Cultural struggle precedes and enables political and economic transformation."

"Folklore is the philosophy of non-philosophers and deserves serious study."

"The relationship between base and superstructure is more complex than simple determinism."

"Truth emerges through the dialectical engagement of opposing ideas and forces."