Social Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

— Marshall McLuhan

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social…

— Marshall McLuhan

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

— Marshall McLuhan

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

— Marshall McLuhan

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body…

— Marshall McLuhan

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The…

— Marshall McLuhan

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the…

— Marshall McLuhan

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than…

— Marshall McLuhan

When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps…

— Marshall McLuhan

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide…

— Marshall McLuhan

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of…

— Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is,…

— Marshall McLuhan

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for…

— Marshall McLuhan

If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and…

— Marshall McLuhan

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences…

— Marshall McLuhan