Quote by H. L. Mencken on Prohibitionists and Alcohol
“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.”
H. L. Mencken
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Ivan Illich on Technology and Medical Malpractice
“The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich on Knowledge, Science and Democracy
“The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective – defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined… and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.”
Ivan Illich
Quotes by H. L. Mencken on Church and Religion
“A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.”
H. L. Mencken
“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised” – Ivan Illich
“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich on Education and Social Participation
“By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with ‘education.'”
Ivan Illich
Progress in Sciences – Noam Chomsky
“The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote by H. L. Mencken about Love for Country
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”
H. L. Mencken
“Celebration of the Human Voice” – Quote by Eduardo Galeano
“Celebration of the Human Voice— When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.”
Eduardo Galeano
Ivan Illich on the State and Education
“The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.”
Ivan Illich