Quotes by : Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

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

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic....

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

A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exercise....

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

Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment....

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of....

In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to....

Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like....