[E]very action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
Source: Letter, 15 June 1931, to his mother; in Letters from Prison, by Gramsci; tr. by Raymond Rosenthal, 1993.
-- Antonio Gramsci, (Jan 23 1891-1937), Italian intellectual, politician; He was a founder of the Italian Communist Party whose ideas still greatly influence Italian Communism.