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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Marshall McLuhan quotes

Canadian Sociologist July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980

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Marshall McLuhan quote: "Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can..."
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. Marshall McLuhan
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 with real things inspires terror in him. Marshall McLuhan
I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons. Marshall McLuhan
In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses. Marshall McLuhan
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. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now..."
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "It is the framework which changes with each new technology and..."
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. Marshall McLuhan
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. Marshall McLuhan
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Marshall McLuhan
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT? Marshall McLuhan
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 of its entire range of activities. Marshall McLuhan
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For..."
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he..."
Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the..."
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. Marshall McLuhan

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