“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
“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.”
The Modern Prince and other Writings, quoting a letter to his sister
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Antonio Gramsci 22
Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu… 1891–1937Related quotes
Freedom (1908)
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“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
Variant: No, I say, it's fine.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Just great, I say. Really.
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