Ivan Illich

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.Ivan Illich

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.Ivan Illich

Leadership does not depend on being right.Ivan Illich

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.Ivan Illich

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.Ivan Illich

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

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich was a famous Austrian philosopher, who was born on September 4, 1926. As a person born on this date, Ivan Illich is listed in our database as the 66th most popular celebrity for the day (September 4) and the 85th most popular for the year (1926).

People born on September 4 fall under the Zodiac sign of Virgo, the Virgin. Ivan Illich is the 2106th most popular Virgo.

Aside from information specific to Ivan Illich's birthday, Ivan Illich is the 56th most famous Austrian and ranks 5th in famous people born in Vienna.

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