Top 12 Ivan Illich Quotes



School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

 

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

 

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

 

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

 

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

 

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

 

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.

 

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

 

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

 

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