Ivan Illich Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We must, therefore, strive cooperatively to create a new world. There is no time left for destruction, for hatred, for anger. We must build, in hope and joy and celebration.

  Ivan Illich

  Joy, Hatred, Suffering

• The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.

  Ivan Illich

  Dark, Drug, Suffering

• Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

  Ivan Illich

  Pain, Suffering, Culture

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

• The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

  Ivan Illich

  New Experiences, Suffering, Maintenance

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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