‘It was on rotting prison straw that I felt the first stirrings of good in myself. Gradually it became clear to me that the line separating good from evil runs not between states, not between classes & not between parties; it runs through the heart of each and everyone of us, & through all human hearts. This line is not stationary. It shifts & moves with the passage of the years. Even in hearts enveloped in evil, it maintains a small bridgehead of good.’ --Alex. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago