Ivan Illich Quotes

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.

Ivan Illich

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.

Ivan Illich

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Ivan Illich

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Ivan Illich

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

Ivan Illich