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Ivan Illich [1926-2002] American

Rank: 101
Sociologist, Philosopher

Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic" of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.

Health, Hope, Attitude, Diet, God, Leadership, Medical, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.	God	101
Leadership does not depend on being right.	Leadership	102
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.	Health	103
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.	Hope	104
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.	Diet, Health, Work	105
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.	Health, Medical	106
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.	Attitude	107
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.		108
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.	Hope	109
The public school has become the established church of secular society.		110

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