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Ivan Illich Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Possibilities Persuasive Shape

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

Strength Fear Children Strong Will

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

Work Live Sick Believe Think You

One may be humble out of pride.

Michel de Montaigne

Humble Pride Be Humble Out May

I think the power of Stieg Larsson's stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side of Sweden. That gave us a push to say that for the first time. That they can't have with the American version.

Michael Nyqvist

Power Time Think American Push Say

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.

Pain Equality Society Mercy Rome Up

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

Best You Actor Director Stomach

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Success Future Past Clothing Those

The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

Age World Retirement Lesson Matter

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Christopher Columbus

Fear Service Name Intention Task

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.

Antonio Banderas

Man People Law Interesting Remember

I think that it's important to have good people around you, like my friends.

Good People Think Good People You

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

Great Sun Me Moving Seeing Look

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