Rich Quotes by Ivan Illich

8 Rich quotes by Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich’s short set of nine quotes on wealth distills his critique of modern prosperity, giving you a quick yet potent taste of his ideas.

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“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency”

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

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“Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is…

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Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich…

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“P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a…

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In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

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Once the Third World has become a mass market for the goods, products, and processes which are designed by the rich for…

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Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has…

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

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