The Line Separating Good And Evil

Gradually, it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not 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. And even within hearts  overwhelmed by evil , one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts , there remains … an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since than I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person. 

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956”