Ivan Illich Quotes

Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated.

Ivan Illich

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• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • Help
  • Direction

• I care about Bahrain.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Care
  • About
  • I Care

• As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • English

• I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Movies
  • Looking
  • Editing

• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• This country is pretty amazing.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Song
  • Fear

• I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Today
  • Financial

• My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Wife
  • Soldier
  • Much

• Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Day

• You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• I am fascinated by quantum physics.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Physics
  • Fascinated
  • Quantum

• Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Men
  • Choice

• Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forget
  • Runs
  • Chain

• Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Decision
  • Class
  • Congress

• There is no excuse for it; it has to stop.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Stop
  • Excuse

• My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

  

  Milton Berle
  • My Wife
  • Valentine
  • Envelope

• The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

  

  Confucius
  • Satisfied
  • Distress
  • Superior Man

• When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Nothing
  • Might
  • Beliefs

• I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Money
  • Success
  • Satisfied

• Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated.

  

  Ivan Illich
  • Satisfied
  • Manipulated
  • Artifacts