Quote by Gramsci, Antonio
"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."
More from Gramsci, Antonio
"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."
"One of the most important things to do in the world is to unmask ideology as ideology."
"The intellectuals are the dominant group's deputies in the exercise of subaltern functions."