And this is how the internet has changed us. This quote comes from a Blog, that is quoting a writer, in a book. And I read it through Google Reader this evening, and it touched me. So now I'm re-posting this quote for you.
Early in The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn propounds an important truth about the human condition:
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil… If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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