All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. Images
- Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… Antiques
- The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer. Artist
- Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems. Answers
- The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. Action
- There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation. Any
- Human perception is literally incarnation. Human
- Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. Inspirational
- The percept takes priority of the concept. Concept
- The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. Abrasive
- There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends, Existing
- Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. All
- All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave… Aesthetic
- The 'expert' is the man who stays put. Expert
- Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment. Enlarging
- We impose the form of the old on the content of the new. Content
- The 'content' of any medium is always another medium. Always Another
- Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways… Becomes
- The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror.… Always Made
- A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. Afford
- It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. Brutal
- The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology… Ideology
- The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action. Action
- The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. Defense
- One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. Consciousness