Antonio Gramsci

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

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

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

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.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.