Gramsci Theory Quotes & Sayings

Mustn't all significant action be preceded by an incubation period?...the waiting period is not just a delay to be endured in order to reach the right moment. It is... the very creator of that moment. — Robert V. Levine

I like observing people. I like looking at things. — Virginia Woolf

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing. — Roma Downey

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you. — Lemony Snicket

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer. — Suraj Sharma

of oppressive state power. Gramsci's theory of hegemony as a form of cultural pedagogy is also invaluable as an element of critical educational thought. By emphasizing the pedagogical force of culture, Gramsci expands the sphere of the political by pointing to those diverse spaces and spheres in which cultural practices are deployed, lived, and mobilized in the service of knowledge, power and authority. For Gramsci, learning and politics were inextricably related and took place not merely in schools but in a vast array of public sites. — Henry A. Giroux

Systems are made by players rather than players making systems — Theo Foley

I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. And just go for it. — Tom Cruise

Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it. — Ian McKellen

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great. — Jeff Koons

The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own. — Antonio Gramsci

A kiss? A fucking kiss got me tortured to within the last inch of sanity? Maybe you could have laid out the rules for messing around with you? You know, before I did that? (Arik to Limos) — Larissa Ione

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate. — Maynard James Keenan

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person. — Richard Wright

Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works. — Antonio Gramsci