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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

By 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.

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

By Ivan Illich
'Modern medicine is a negation of health.  It isn't organised to serve human health, but only to serve itself as an institution.  It makes more people sick than it heals.'

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

By Ivan Illich