Antonio Gramsci Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

2. Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.

3. Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

4. Politics always lags behind economics, far behind. The state apparatus is far more resistant than is possible to believe; and it succeeds, at moments of crisis, in organizing greater forces loyal to the regime than the depth of the crisis might lead one to suppose. This is especially true of the more important capitalist states.

5. The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned