Able Quote by Ivan Illich

“The machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the…

— Ivan Illich

“On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving power. Culture…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system…

— Alan Watts

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all…

— Philip Zimbardo

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system…

— Arianna Huffington

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political…

— Vivian Gornick

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied…

— Henry Grady Weaver

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and…

— George Amos Dorsey

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others,…

— Carl Cohen