Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 5

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• The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Bombs, Messages, Atomic Bomb

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• The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Ideas, Propaganda

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.270, McClelland & Stewart

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• All advertising advertises advertising.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Advertising

  "The Book of Probes". Book by Marshall McLuhan (p. 145), 2011.

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• Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Helping, Youth, Revolutionary

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• As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Age

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• Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Eye, Magic

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

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• The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Car, Shells

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 224

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• All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Media

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• With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicidal, Technology, Men

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Children, Educational, Schedules

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

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• It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Use, Realizing

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• Only the vanquished remember history.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Political, Remember

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• Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Views, Independence, Rear View

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• Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Years, Hostile, Fellows

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• The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Singing, Riding, Advertising Business

  "The Mechanical Bride". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1951.

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• Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Light, People

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.268, McClelland & Stewart

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• People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Morning, People, Hot

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• The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Moving, Knowledge

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

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• Our technology forces us to live mythically

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Force

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

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• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Journey

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• First we build the tools, then they build us.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Tools, Firsts

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• Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moving, Giving, Anticipation

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

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• Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Novelty, Annihilation

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• The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Perception, Training

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• I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Men, Space

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