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?
"So, if you have the fire, run..." -St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 3
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Evil People
As a follow-up to the previous post, I came across the following from The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn:
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