Quotes by Ivan Illich

"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."

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"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."

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"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised."

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"We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation."

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"Leadership does not depend on being right."

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"So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities."

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