Marshall McLuhan quotes - page 7

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. (Marshall McLuhan)
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. View quote
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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. View quote
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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 comfort. View quote
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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. View quote
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. View quote
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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. View quote
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A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. View quote
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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 new way. View quote
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. View quote
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. (Marshall McLuhan)
I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened. View quote
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To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms. View quote
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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 no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or physical. View quote
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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. View quote
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Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society. View quote
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The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. View quote
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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. View quote
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Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been...destroyed by sudden environmental change. View quote
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Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. View quote
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. (Marshall McLuhan)
The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message. View quote
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. View quote
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Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perception...When these ratios change, men change. View quote
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All media of communications are cliches serving to enlarge man's scope of action, his patterns of associations and awareness. These media create environments that numb our powers of attention by sheer pervasiveness. View quote
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