Antonio Gramsci Quotes

I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner …. I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison.

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgement of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice.

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

I can’t accept it. It may cost me the election, but I’m still not going to sign it.

I succeeded in staying out of the military during the Vietnam War, and I would never assume the right to tell others to do a “duty” that I shirked.

Saint-Just's lips were believed to be pure. There was faith in him because of his reputation for asceticism and Spartan frugality. He had been an example of all the civic virtues. The purity of morals which he passionately demanded was no more than that which he practiced himself

In order to maintain my own self-respect, I had to dedicate my life to something that was greater than my own self-interest.

Always take the high road. You never sacrifice your team. You sacrifice yourself for your team.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.