A review by tectonic
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl

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3.75

Quotes that stood out to me, and remain extremely relevant:

“[He] studied cruelty and hatred. And he found one of the roots of such evil to be the turning away, choosing not to see or know of bystanders. That not knowing was read by perpetrators as a tacit approval.” 

“The underlying motive for not knowing, he points out, is to escape any sense of responsibility or guilt for those crimes.”

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