Quotes by Antonio Gramsci

• The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
• To tell the truth is revolutionary.
• Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
• 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.
• I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
• I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.