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10 quotes by Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich (/ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic" of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.
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We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

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Leadership does not depend on being right.

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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...... →

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At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

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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... →

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

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Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

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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... →

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The public school has become the established church of secular society.

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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for... →

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