All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right… Ascetic
- It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. Changes
- The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. Banks
- A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. Expressing
- Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Abundance
- American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. Age
- If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. Age
- Jokes are grievances. Grievance
- The medium is the message. Communication
- The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. Almost Everything
- Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Confusion
- Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. Alone
- Money is a poor man's credit card. Card
- The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. Aggressive
- The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. Imposed
- The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Blow
- Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Ad
- When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they… Curves
- Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. Begins
- Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their… Ad
- In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Age
- Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the… Action
- Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Art
- Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made… Activities
- Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. Aggression