Antonio Gramsci

"We must prevent this brain from functioning for twenty years."

"We can see that in putting the question "what is man?" what we mean is: what can man become? That is, can man dominate his own destiny, can he "make himself," can he create his own life? We maintain t…"

"History is at once freedom and necessity."

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

"When I was a child the boys of the town never came near me except to make fun of me. I was almost always alone. Sometimes, finding me by chance among them, they hurled themselves against me, and not o…"

"For two years I have lived outside the world: in a dream world. One by one, I let each strand tying me to the world and to my fellow men be cut. I live entirely for the mind, for the. heart not at all…"

"To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act."

"I can’t think why Delio has not been told that I’m in prison, and why no one reflected that he might then find out about it indirectly, that is, in the most disagreeable way for a child, who then begi…"