Antonio Gramsci

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.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

To tell the truth is always a revolutionary act.

Man is above all else a historical creation.

Every relationship of 'hegemony' is necessarily a pedagogical relationship.

The philosophy of praxis is absolute 'historicism', the absolute secularization and earthliness of thought, an absolute humanism of history.

The subaltern classes, by definition, are not unified and cannot unite until they are able to become a 'State'.

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 which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without inventory.

The old intellectual and moral order is dying, but the new one is not yet born.

The 'spontaneous' consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group.

The history of a party is the history of a social class.

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

The conquest of power is not the end, but the beginning of the revolution.

The philosophy of praxis is the only philosophy that can provide a coherent and complete explanation of the world.

The problem of the intellectuals is that of their relationship to the people-nation, i.e. the complex of social relations of which they are an expression.

The truth is always revolutionary.

The whole of society is a 'hegemonic apparatus'.

The philosophy of praxis is the concrete historical understanding of the world.

The working class, if it wants to emancipate itself, must emancipate all humanity.

The 'common sense' of the people is the starting point for any revolutionary transformation.