"[Morality and ethics – freedom from the evil of force and fraud:] 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 [i.e. - anyone can, at any time, for any reason – selfish or even apparently ‘altruistic’, decide to use, non-self-defense related, force and fraud which are the basis of all evil. Only eternal, mutual, understanding, commitment and self-disciplined, vigilance offers individual and societal moral hope]."

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Notes: (1918-2008), novelist, Nobel laureate.