Ivan Illich
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
attitude
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
-Ivan Illich
death
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
diet
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
health
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
health
Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
-Ivan Illich
health
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
-Ivan Illich
hope
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
-Ivan Illich
hope
Leadership does not depend on being right.
-Ivan Illich
leadership
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
medical
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
-Ivan Illich
society
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
work
Other Authors to Explore
Mike Figgis
James Roosevelt
Vanessa Kerry
Amiri Baraka
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Oliver Reed
John Walters
Grandma Moses