Marshall McLuhan

I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

— Marshall McLuhan

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

— Marshall McLuhan

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

— Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

— Marshall McLuhan

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

— Marshall McLuhan

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

— Marshall McLuhan

“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.”

— Marshall McLuhan

The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.

— Marshall McLuhan

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

— Marshall McLuhan

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

— Marshall McLuhan

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

— Marshall McLuhan

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

— Marshall McLuhan

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

— Marshall McLuhan

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

— Marshall McLuhan

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds…

— Marshall McLuhan

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

— Marshall McLuhan

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician,…

— Marshall McLuhan

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my…

— Marshall McLuhan

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and…

— Marshall McLuhan

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would…

— Marshall McLuhan

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into…

— Marshall McLuhan

Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical.…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor…

— 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 poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with…

— 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

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV…

— Marshall McLuhan

Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Theirs is the customary human reaction when confronted with innovation: to flounder about attempting to adapt old responses to new situations or…

— Marshall McLuhan

“It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole…

— 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

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

— Marshall McLuhan

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

— Marshall McLuhan

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

— Marshall McLuhan

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

— Marshall McLuhan

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

— Marshall McLuhan

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

— Marshall McLuhan

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

— Marshall McLuhan

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

— Marshall McLuhan