Quotes by : Ivan Illich

Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of....

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create....

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining....

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly....

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's....

The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining....

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged....

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

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The....