"For two years I have lived outside the world: in a dream world. One by one, I let each strand tying me to the world a…"

"When I was a child the boys of the town never came near me except to make fun of me. I was almost always alone. Somet…"

"I can’t think why Delio [son] has not been told that I’m in prison, and why no one reflected that he might then find …"

"Antonio Gramsci wisely wrote: "When a politician puts pressure on the art of his time to express a particular cultura…"

"To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act."

"It is all a matter of comparing one’s own life with something worse and consoling oneself with the relativity of huma…"

"Gramsci deviated from the Marxist belief that the inherent contradictions of capitalism would of themselves usher in …"

"The history of education shows that every class which has sought to take power has prepared itself for power by an au…"

"History teaches, but it has no pupils."

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