The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons.