Ivan Illich Quotes

I didn't want to go into the papal bureaucracy, so I thought of doing a postdoctoral thesis, which they call a 'Habilitation' in German universities, on alchemy in the work of Albert the Great.

Ivan Illich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGreatThoughtDoingGoWant

Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

Jimmy Reid

LeadershipLeaderFightingChoice

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Jessica Hagedorn

LifeSimplePeopleHeroesBeing

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

John Green

GreatValuePeopleReadingThinkGo

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

Mia Wasikowska

LoveHistoryArtCollegePhotography

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

HomeBeginningPeopleComputersWill

And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization.

Tony Evans

FamilyYouLookCivilizationCreator

I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got approached about Barton Fink, because my agent said the brothers were in London. We hit it off immediately, and suddenly I found myself on the way to America!

Roger Deakins

MyselfHappyMovingAmericaDone

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

Mike Murdock

ProblemsYouCreateWillRemembered

I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.

Michael Moore

AgeTodayBelieveAmericanYouTry

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

Mohammed Morsi

FaithFreedomPracticeFreeTrue

No relationship is great all the time.

Lotte Verbeek

RelationshipGreatTime

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

Johnny Van Zant

BirdFreeWatchingKidAlwaysBeen

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