All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new… Beginning
- Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another. Discover
- Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. Change
- A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress… Addition
- The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and… Carried
- Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force. Ahead
- The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard… Amplify
- Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. Absence
- Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today. Dreamed
- The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our… Children
- The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. Cannot Sell
- 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 quiet… Affair
- What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software. Age
- Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on… Any
- Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. Alternative
- Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of… Accept
- Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening Ceased
- Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed. Believed
- Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. Denial
- The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. Bad
- The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the… Attach
- Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by… Babel
- Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar Consequence
- I do not explain, I explore. Explain
- The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own… Action