What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.
Antonio GramsciThis is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.
Antonio GramsciIf you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
Antonio GramsciMan is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
Antonio Gramsci