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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds. - Ivan Illich Quotes

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy - Ivan Illich Quotes

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy

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. - Ivan Illich Quotes

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.

Birth

Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up. - Ivan Illich Quotes

Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up.

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 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.

American Sociologist Health

The public school has become the established church of secular society. - Ivan Illich Quotes

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

American Sociologist

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school - Ivan Illich Quotes

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school

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. - Ivan Illich Quotes

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.

American Sociologist Life

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery . . . - Ivan Illich Quotes

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery . . .

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. - Ivan Illich Quotes

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

American Sociologist Expectation

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. - Ivan Illich Quotes

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

American Sociologist God

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them - Ivan Illich Quotes

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. - Ivan Illich Quotes

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

American Sociologist Death

Leadership does not depend on being right. - Ivan Illich Quotes

Leadership does not depend on being right.

American Sociologist Leadership

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community. - Ivan Illich Quotes

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

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