Quotes by Antonio Gramsci

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of ones own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

The popular element feels but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element knows but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

Possibility means freedom. The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the existence of the objective conditions, of possibilities or of freedom is not yet enough: it is necessary to know them, and know how to use them.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

“Im a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”