Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Identity, Quests

• Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

  Marshall McLuhan

  War, Identity, Weapons

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.97, 1988.

• Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, People, Identity

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

• Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Identity, Attention

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

• Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Identity, World

  1967 'Canada: A Borderline Case', CBC radio broadcast, 29 May.

• Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environmental, Identity, Violence

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye, p. 514, 1987.

• Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, Men, People

  "McLuhan's last words". "New Scientist" Magazine, January 29, 1981.

• The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Generations, Violence

  "The Book of Probes: Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 201, 2011.

• You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Resources, Know How

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

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