Home / Quotes / Quote by Antonio Gramsci

Quote by Antonio Gramsci

“The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with the same rhythm. The traditional ruling class, which has numerous trained cadres, changes men and programmes and, with greater speed than is achieved by the subordinate classes, reabsorbs the control that was slipping from its grasp. Perhaps it may make sacrifices, and expose itself to an uncertain future by demagogic promises; but it retains power, reinforces it for the time being, and uses it to crush its adversary and disperse his leading cadres, who cannot be be very numerous or highly trained.”

Quote by Antonio Gramsci

Book:Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Work

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci, born on January 22, 1891, and died on April 27, 1937, was an Italian politician, philosopher, and writer. He was a prominent figure in the Italian Communist movement and is known for his unique theoretical contributions and profound analysis of cultural, political, and social issues. more

You May Also Like

“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the world are still like this. Don’t question what you are taught! Just listen and get good marks on the test! It conditions us to be slaves. The minute we abandon our inquisitive nature, we cede our consciences to the whims of tyrants. We are capable of better. We owe it to ourselves and each other to create better opportunities that enhance human potential. Education is the externality that allows for this, but our methods of education must promote self-guidance and self-reliance.”

Education Self Help Tyranny Oppression Educational Philosophy Self Reliance Self Growth Suppression Drones Human Potential Hegemony Slaves Educational Reform Exploratory Learning Externality Inquistive Nature Self Guidance Spirit Breaking

Book:Sinew of the Social Species

Source: Sinew of the Social Species

“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that the trade would have been impossible if certain Africans did not cooperate with slave ships. To ease their guilty consciences, Europeans try to throw the major responsibility for the slave trade on to the Africans. One major author on the slave trade (appropriately titled Sins of Our Fathers) explained how many white people urged him to state that the trade was the responsibility of African chiefs, and that Europeans merely turned up to buy captives- as though without European demand there would have been captives sitting on the beach by the millions! Issues such as those are not the principal concern of this study, but they can be correctly approached only after understanding that Europe became the center of a world-wide system and that it was European capitalism which set slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in motion.”

Responsibility History Capitalism Domination Hegemony Slave Trade

Book:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It’s implicit.”

Power Authority Control Patriarchy Hierarchy Conditioning Hegemony

Book:Of Bodies Changed

Source: Of Bodies Changed

“Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for each group its behavior and for each institutions its practices.”

Power Ideology Critical Thinking Hegemony Critical Theory

Author:Amine Zidouh

“Victors do not investigate their own crimes, so that little is known about them...”

Imperialism Hegemony

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.”

Terrorism Propaganda Censorship Hegemony

Author:Milan Kundera

“Who can we trust with a monopoly of the planet killer weapons and unlimited powers of inspection and arrest? Why, a country big and modern enough to make peace-keeping a major industry; but not big enough to conquer anyone else or force its will on anyone without the support of a majority of nations; and reasonably well thought of by everyone. In short, Sweden.”

International Relations Hegemony

Book:Tau Zero

Source: Tau Zero

“Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had merely daubed on the finishing touches at the end of a process which had begun five hundred years ago, at least. Their intuitive moral desires coincided with the ideals embodied in the formulas of their religion, yet they could live in accordance neither with those deepest impulses nor with the precepts of the religion, because society came in between with all the pressure of its tradition. No one could afford to be honest or generous or merciful because every one of them distrusted all the others; often they had more confidence in a Christian they were meeting for the first time than in a Moslem they had known for years.”

Christianity Tradition Islam Conformity Colonialism Mistrust Western Civilization Decadence Hegemony Morocco Social Convention Westernization French Morocco Social Pressures

Book:The Spider's House

Source: The Spider's House

“North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is the only.”

Cinema Domination American Hegemony Cultural Hegemony Parochial Conditioning

Author:Arturo Ripstein

“Taking part in the Western mission to civilize the East is highly spiritually rewarding. And what is political destabilization and social unrest but a sweet revenge for China's disregard for Western hegemony.”

China Imperialism Hegemony

Author:Thorsten J. Pattberg