Marshall McLuhan quotes

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. (Marshall McLuhan)
The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is whatever you can get away with.
Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication.
Marshall McLuhan
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
Money is a poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. (Marshall McLuhan)
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Marshall McLuhan
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
Marshall McLuhan
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Marshall McLuhan
The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature.
Marshall McLuhan
All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical. (Marshall McLuhan)
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Marshall McLuhan
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
Marshall McLuhan
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.
Marshall McLuhan
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan