All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Agree
- The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension… Affair
- Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning… Art
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Advertising
- Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. Behavior
- Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. Age
- Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. Accompany
- Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. Canada
- As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable… Affair
- Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. Definitions
- Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward… Advertising
- We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. Drive
- Art is anything you can get away with. Art
- Affluence creates poverty. Affluence
- The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. Been
- The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Commercials
- The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Engine
- The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a… Able
- The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. Creates
- As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do… Advances
- An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch… Abstraction
- For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. Man
- Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Consequence
- Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. Been
- Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and… Club