**Crucial** quote from Solzhenitsyn, culled from comments to a JMGreer post -Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on April 4, 2019, 8:45 am
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: “If only it were all so simple! 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?”
Absolutely how I would phrase it too. Ochone, ochone! What a goddamned conundrum!
JM's relevant and entertaining-as-ever essay here: