Telephone, Communication and Privacy – Quote by Ivan Illich
“The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with – or protect – the privacy of their exchange.”
Ivan Illich
Quote About Marriage and Relationships by Leo Tolstoi
“There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Prophylaxis and Palliation
“My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.”
Rudolf Virchow
Ivan Illich on School and Self-Directed Learning
“Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory – as we see at this moment in the United States – create a dazed population, a ‘learned’ population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.”
Ivan Illich
Umberto Eco on Allusion, Spirit and the Heart
“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”
Umberto Eco