Ivan Illich Quotes

Ivan Illich — American Sociologist born on September 04, 1926, died on December 02, 2002

Ivan Illich 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... (wikipedia)

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

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

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.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

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 Quotes

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