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World Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.…
- The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
- Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener
- Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
- 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…
- Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.
- Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...
- Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in…
- 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…
- Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
- 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…
- The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
- 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…
- Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
- 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…
- The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach