Marshall McLuhan Quotes


70 quotes:

"ONLY THE SMALL SECRETS NEED TO BE PROTECTED.THE BIG ONES ARE KEPT SECRET BY PUBLIC INCREDULITY."
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"Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers."
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
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"The medium is the message."
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"Art is anything you can get away with."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
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"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."
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"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."
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"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
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"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies."
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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
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"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."
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"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
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"A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion."
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"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."
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"Affluence creates poverty."
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"A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them."
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