Ivan Illich

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

Leadership does not depend on being right.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

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.

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.