The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends, — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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