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All Quotes by author - Ivan Illich
" At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. "
Hope
Surprised
Death
" Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. "
Discovery
Effective
Fact
" 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. "
Die
Work
Live
" Leadership does not depend on being right. "
Depend
Being
Right
" 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. "
Sick
People
Medicine
" 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. "
Fact
Care
Two
" 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. "
Good
Acceptance
Blessings
" The public school has become the established church of secular society. "
School
Public
Church
" There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. "
Man
Distance
God
" We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. "
Rediscover
Expectation
Must
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