The line between good and evil

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. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

A useful corrective to every confident story about who the bad people are. The line is internal, and it moves.