Marshall McLuhan Quotes:
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Marshall McLuhan
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Marshall McLuhan
Source: Financial Times
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Marshall McLuhan
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Marshall McLuhan
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.
Marshall McLuhan
Money is a poor man’s credit card.
Marshall McLuhan
I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it.
Marshall McLuhan
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan