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Ivan Illich Inspirational Quotes (38)

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God
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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.
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Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
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Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves they demand to be managed.
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To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.
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Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
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The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.
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I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.
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Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
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The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
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We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
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At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
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