"All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals"

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Source : "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

Antonio Gramsci

#Men Quotes #Function Quotes

“History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?”

Source : Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.469, Hachette UK
“I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.”

Source : John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232
“If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.”
“Kissing is something that everybody does!”
“You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.”
“I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.”
“Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.”
“In front of other people it was almost always "FrÃ¤ulein Braun." Just as [Eva Braun] called him "der FÃ¼hrer," [Adolf Hitler] called her "FrÃ¤ulein Braun."”

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