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Us Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life.…
- 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…
- First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
- 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…
- Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
- The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the…
- We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
- The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
- Our technology forces us to live mythically
- All media work us over completely.
- First we build the tools, then they build us.
- We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
- Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots of time to…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong