Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 2

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• "Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Doe, Hunters

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Baby, Thinking

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• Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Trying, Asks

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• In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Television, Vanishing, Wraps

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Views, Old Things

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• Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Village, Simultaneous

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environment, Boundaries

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• The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Impact, Messages

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• The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Community, Culture

  Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

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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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Men, Inspire

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Identity

  "Violence in the media". Canadian Forum, Volume 56, (p. 9), 1976.

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• As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Looks

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• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Attitude, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

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• Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

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  Mean, Doe, Village

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• If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

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  Self, Media, Transformation

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• Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Yesterday, Answers, Today

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• When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Hands, Games

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• I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Careful, Happened

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.172, McClelland & Stewart

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• I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Investing, Ifs

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• There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

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  Errors

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• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Greatness, Odds

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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• All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Quests, Violence

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

  Marshall McLuhan

  People, Alive

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• Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Play, Leisure

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.125, Routledge

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