Ivan Illich Quotes

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Ivan Illich

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• Consumption
• Everlasting

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• For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • High
  • Earth

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • School
  • Age
  • Day

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I want to be sublimely happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Jesus
  • Stress
  • Forgiveness

• God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Work
  • God
  • Age

• An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Control
  • Information
  • Capital

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Purpose
  • Quality
  • Emotional

• If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • Comedy
  • Really
  • Fortunate

• The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

  

  Ivan Illich
  • Belief
  • Consumption
  • Everlasting