Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Psychics, Political

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

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• We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Tools, Shapes

  "New technology is fuelling the growth of gaming with social purpose" by David Hawksworth, Christian Johnsen, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2014.

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  World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Military, War, Division

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.66, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Perception, Arbitrary

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

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• People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, People, Soul

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• There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, the Holy Fool" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. January 01, 1996.

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Eye, Rights, Giving

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

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• Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Done, Computer, Monopoly

  Marshall McLuhan, Barrington Nevitt (1972). “Take today; the executive as dropout”, [Don Mills

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• Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Alternatives, Patterns, Information

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Success, Powerful, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Robots, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan (2017). “The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan”, p.99, OR Books

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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 news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Media, News

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• The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Data

  Marshall McLuhan, Wilfred Watson (1970). “From cliché to archetype”, Viking Adult

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Investing, Ifs

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• Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Evil, Secret, Needs

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Yesterday, Answers, Today

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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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Doe, Village

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• It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Confused, Worship, Sincerity

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• What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Age, Littles

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