The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich Copy Share
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? — Ivan Illich Copy Share
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency” — Ivan Illich Copy Share
“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
“Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
