Famous Quotes / Marshall McLuhan
52 Quotations by Marshall McLuhan
- 1. A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to b ...
- 2. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
- 3. A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
- 4. Ads are the cave art of the Twentieth Century.
- 5. Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
- 6. Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
- 7. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag ...
- 8. Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoymen ...
- 9. Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell t ...
- 10. As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, t ...
- 11. Darkness is to space what silence is to sound; i.e., the interval.
- 12. Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
- 13. Education is civil defense against media fallout.
- 14. Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, ...
- 15. For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation o ...
- 16. For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies ...
- 17. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
- 18. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call thems ...
- 19. I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
- 20. I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can alwa ...