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Ivan Illich Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american sociologist Ivan Illich on topics like people, school, north

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

    — Ivan Illich on prayer
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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 than it heals.

    — Ivan Illich on medicine
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  • The public school has become the established church of secular society.

    — Ivan Illich on education
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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 somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

    — Ivan Illich on goodness
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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... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

    — Ivan Illich on health
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  • Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

    — Ivan Illich on evangelism
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  • It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

    — Ivan Illich on silence
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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 persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

    — Ivan Illich on education
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  • About Ivan Illich

    Name Ivan Illich
    Quotes 8 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Sociologist
    Birthday October 16
    About Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects of the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, and economic development.
    Top topics people, school, north, education, share

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