Marshall McLuhan Quotes

• The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Tags in Photograph

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

  Marshall McLuhan

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

  Marshall McLuhan

• The medium is the message.

  Marshall McLuhan

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

  Marshall McLuhan

• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.

  Marshall McLuhan

• Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it’s just the beginning.

  Marshall McLuhan

• Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

  Marshall McLuhan

• Money is just the poor man’s credit card.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Money

• Money is a poor man’s credit card.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Money

• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Failure

• Jokes are grievances.

  Marshall McLuhan

• It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

  Marshall McLuhan

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

  Marshall McLuhan

• I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

  Marshall McLuhan

• Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

• Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

  Marshall McLuhan

• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

  Marshall McLuhan

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Country

• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Art

Marshall McLuhan (74)

Birth:	21st July, 1911
Death:	31st December, 1980
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Philosopher

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