Quotes by Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich

A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

Choices

Hands

Style

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Moments

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you’re a flame in the dark.

Dark

Flames

Knows

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it’s necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

Culture

Pain

Suffering

Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

Affirmation

Frustration

Rich

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

Care

Discovery

Self

Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and “cold turkey”-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

Kicking It

Numbers

Turkeys

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

America

Community

Latin

Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

Attitude

Essentials

Health

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.

Get Well

Healing

Home

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Care

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Consumption

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Culture

Cycling

Dark

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Depends

Desire

Diagnosis

Difficult Times

Discovery

Disease

Distance

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Ends

Envy

Essentials

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Quotes by Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich

A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you’re a flame in the dark.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it’s necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

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

Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

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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