Author: Ivan Illich

Quotes

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

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

- Ivan Illich

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

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

- Ivan Illich

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.

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

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

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

- Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

- Ivan Illich

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

- Ivan Illich

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