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Ivan Illich Quotes

Leadership does not depend on being right Picture Quote #1

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That’s what the Gospels tell us Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to die of some disease I want to die of death Picture Quote #1

To hell with the future. It’s a man-eating idol Picture Quote #1

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery Picture Quote #1

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health Picture Quote #1

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Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don’t show up in the calculations of economists Picture Quote #1

Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated Picture Quote #1

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts Picture Quote #1

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient Picture Quote #1

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them Picture Quote #1

I was recently told, ‘You’re a liar!’ when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can’t walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there Picture Quote #1

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To be ignorant or unconvinced of one’s own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need Picture Quote #1

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery Picture Quote #1

The pupil is ... ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized Picture Quote #1

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story Picture Quote #1

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The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting Picture Quote #1

Schools teach the need to be taught Picture Quote #1

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health Picture Quote #1

To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another Picture Quote #1

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place Picture Quote #1

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen Picture Quote #1

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People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them Picture Quote #1

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation Picture Quote #1

The public school has become the established church of secular society Picture Quote #1

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised Picture Quote #1

I cannot come to be fully human unless I have received myself as a gift and accepted myself as a gift of somebody who has, as we say today, distorted me the way you distorted me by loving me Picture Quote #1

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary Picture Quote #1

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Leadership does not depend on being right (Ivan Illich Quotes) Jesus was an anarchist savior. That’s what the Gospels tell us (Ivan Illich Quotes) I don’t want to die of some disease I want to die of death (Ivan Illich Quotes) To hell with the future. It’s a man-eating idol (Ivan Illich Quotes) Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery (Ivan Illich Quotes) The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health (Ivan Illich Quotes) Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don’t show up in the calculations of economists (Ivan Illich Quotes) Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated (Ivan Illich Quotes) The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts (Ivan Illich Quotes) The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient (Ivan Illich Quotes) The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them (Ivan Illich Quotes) I was recently told, ‘You’re a liar!’ when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can’t walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there (Ivan Illich Quotes) To be ignorant or unconvinced of one’s own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need (Ivan Illich Quotes) Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. (Ivan Illich Quotes) The pupil is ... ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 Quotes) In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized (Ivan Illich Quotes) If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story (Ivan Illich Quotes) The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting (Ivan Illich Quotes) Schools teach the need to be taught (Ivan Illich Quotes) The medical establishment has become the major threat to health (Ivan Illich Quotes) To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another (Ivan Illich Quotes) The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place (Ivan Illich Quotes) Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen (Ivan Illich Quotes) People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them (Ivan Illich Quotes) We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation (Ivan Illich Quotes) The public school has become the established church of secular society (Ivan Illich Quotes) At the moment of death I hope to be surprised (Ivan Illich Quotes) I cannot come to be fully human unless I have received myself as a gift and accepted myself as a gift of somebody who has, as we say today, distorted me the way you distorted me by loving me (Ivan Illich Quotes) School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (Ivan Illich Quotes)

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