Economic inequality Quote by Ivan Illich Download Open image “Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.” — Ivan Illich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economic inequality Freedom Men Money Rich Use
We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do w/out. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both. — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“We spend our incomes for paint and paper, for a hundred trifles, I know not what, and not for the things of a man.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“the freedom money gives the poor man is nothing to the freedom money has given the rich man. With money rich men ceased to… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Money can buy many things, but nothing more valuable than your freedom.” — J.L. Collins Copy Share Image
A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man. — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. — Anonymous 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 the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue’s responsibility until it… — 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 Image
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
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 Image
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
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 Image
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
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 Image
“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency” — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Conant was concerned that the “particular functions” that might be assigned to young people would be dictated by the economic conditions of their families, and that over the generations this would result in ever-greater economic inequality. Such inequality would make it increasingly difficult for citizens to believe they had a “joint culture,” and it would make the country more vulnerable… — Michael S. Roth Copy Share
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“… our nation's truly critical problems are built into the very structure of the economic and political system; they are not something passing in… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of… — William H. Sylvis Copy Share Image
Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it. — William C. Dudley Copy Share Image
“We also need to understand that white supremacy is at the heart of the problem—not just a racially associated economic inequality.” — Becky Bond Copy Share Image
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
