Quotes by Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

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We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfy — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to pl — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, gener — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exercise of productive — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed. — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produc — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God di — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining their own goal — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumptio — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goal — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also de — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies