the line between good and evil...?

Question

..runs not through the borders of countries or between black and white, but through every human heart.

does anyone know who said that, or something like it?

Answer 1

Alexander Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"
I think.

Answer 2

In the book A Human Being Died that Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla is talking to one of the kings of apartheid and his name is De Kock. This man is serving a 212 year sentence for the murders that he has committed. In the quote, “For a moment there was a thin line between good and evil”(pg.49), what I think she is thinking that he might have crossed the line just for a moment. The moral question is should someone be let go of prison if they feel remorse for what they have done. I definitely think not because ending an innocent persons life doest not deserve to go unpunished. How would you feel if the man that killed your dad, brother, or husband was allowed to be free and live a normal life. What I noticed that was interesting was when she said she could see why someone would celebrate a death like when Pumla had wanted a man from the secret police be put to death. I think she is trying to say that maybe he does deserve to be put to death for what he has done.

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Very good question !

Answer 3

Nietzsche.... and this line is man, this is a rope... man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss. a dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end...behold, i am a herald of the lightning and a heavy drop from the cloud; but this lightning is called overman. lest ye shall not forget, whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. and when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.