Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illichwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth4 September 1926
CountryUnited States of America
Ivan Illich quotes about
humorous health doctors
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.
learning reality information
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
diagnosis problem ethical
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
technology support choices
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.
new-experiences suffering opaque
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
expectations poor-nations rich
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.
kindness skills people
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.