Sunday's Philosophical Nugget

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an Italian thinker and activist who spent his last years in one of Mussolini's jails. His crime was in questioning authority, something a fascist regime cannot abide, no matter how legitimate or necessary those questions may be. Though he spent the last twelve years of his life in prison, he continued to write and left behind a legacy of keen, insightful analysis of contemporary culture and its relationship to political power. Here's a quote from one of his works:

"I give culture this meaning: exercise of
thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of
connecting causes and effects... I believe that
it means thinking well, whatever one thinks,
and therefore acting well, whatever one does."