Quotes by : Ivan Illich

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

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the....

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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