Ivan Illich Quotes


Leadership does not depend on being right. Ivan Illich Leadership 152
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich Medical 123
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. Ivan Illich death 83
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. Ivan Illich Health 65
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. Ivan Illich Death 64
The public school has become the established church of secular society. Ivan Illich Education 52
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. Ivan Illich Diet 50
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. Ivan Illich School 45
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. Ivan Illich Education 43
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. Ivan Illich Prayer 43

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