Ivan Illich Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 4, 1926 - December 2, 2002

Topics

HealthMedicalPeopleSickMedicine

I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.

Jennifer Johnston

MotherDaughterGreatMeGrandfather

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.

Jennie Garth

FriendBestMeBest FriendOutGuy

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

Meir Soloveichik

LoveChildrenEndLearnLoving

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

Matthew Ramsey

BandSoundBecauseDifferentWho

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

Stanley Hauerwas

RacismChristianConservativeEnemies

I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be a feminist and don't want to claim feminism, that's entirely your right.

Roxane Gay

LoveRespectPeopleChoicesYou

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

Mary Hunter Austin

WaterSpringHelpFindUnderestimate

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Michael Moore

FearAmericanMediaYouPumpFull

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

Lorna Luft

LifeLoveFriendMy LifeGoneBeing

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

Chuck Zito

PeopleHitFewThemFew People

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

Allison Tolman

CultureSmallSpeakThreeQuit

I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.

Syd

SeriouslyStartedLessonsTaking

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