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. And even within the same heart, it is sometimes squeezed by triumphant evil into a narrowest compass, and sometimes it expands to encompass the whole. And even within the same heart, it is sometimes squeezed by triumphant evil into a narrowest compass, and sometimes it expands to encompass the whole.