Gramsci, Antonio

"Hegemony is maintained through what people accept as natural and inevitable."

"The revolutionary party must be organic to the class it seeks to represent."

"To understand the world, one must understand the history of how power is exercised."

"The question is not whether to have ideology, but which ideology to have."

"Every philosophy is an implicit politics, and every politics rests on implicit philosophy."

"The tragedy of the working class is its lack of intellectual direction."

"To be traditional is not to be static but to understand one's place in history."

"The mass of people are not intellectuals, but all contain intellectual capacities."

"Cultural resistance is as important as economic and political resistance."

"The intellectual must be the organic expression of the class he represents."

"Imagination and creativity are political acts when directed toward liberation."

"One must be a romantic idealist while remaining a hard-headed realist."

"The nation-state itself is a historical construct that can be transcended."

"To educate is to liberate the mind from the chains of false consciousness."

"The people make history, but not under conditions of their choosing."

"Intellectual and moral reform must precede and accompany political transformation."

"The study of history is the study of human consciousness and freedom."

"No group can maintain dominance without some degree of consent from the dominated."

"The modern intellectual must be a philosopher, a scientist, and a politician."

"Tradition is not something to be slavishly followed but critically engaged with."

"The working class must struggle not only for material needs but for dignity and culture."

"Revolutionary change requires a long war of position, not merely a war of maneuver."

"Intellectuals are produced by every class, but intellectuals that lead are produced by dominant classes."

"One cannot understand the present without understanding how we got here."

"The intellectual function is to make the implicit explicit and the unconscious conscious."

"Every person contains within themselves the contradictions of their time."

"To be free is to be conscious of one's historical situation and limitations."

"The cultural products of a people reveal the deep structures of their consciousness."

"The state does not exist apart from civil society but is embedded within it."

"Language is the medium through which hegemony is maintained and challenged."