The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
Antonio GramsciThe challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio GramsciMan is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
Antonio GramsciIt indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.
Antonio Gramsci