Marshall McLuha Quotes

Most popular Marshall McLuha Quotes

The medium is the message. - Marshall McLuha quote.
The medium is the message.
— Marshall McLuha

television

Money is a poor man's credit card. - Marshall McLuha quote.
Money is a poor man's credit card.
— Marshall McLuha Maclean’s

money

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuha quote.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
— Marshall McLuha Culture is Our Business

advertising

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuha quote.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
— Marshall McLuha

environment earth

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuha quote.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
— Marshall McLuha Advertising Age

advertising

In television, images are projected at you.  You are the screen. - Marshall McLuha quote.
In television, images are projected at you.  You are the screen.
— Marshall McLuha The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

television

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. - Marshall McLuha quote.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
— Marshall McLuha Understanding Media

names

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. - Marshall McLuha quote.
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
— Marshall McLuha

computers

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. - Marshall McLuha quote.
On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew.
— Marshall McLuha Journal of Communication

earth

Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuha quote.
Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
— Marshall McLuha in Montreal Gazette

Vietnam war

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. - Marshall McLuha quote.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
— Marshall McLuha

computers

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath. - Marshall McLuha quote.
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
— Marshall McLuha

journalism

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. - Marshall McLuha quote.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
— Marshall McLuha Understanding Media

cars

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and . . . will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. - Marshall McLuha quote.
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and . . . will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
— Marshall McLuha Horizon

appetite

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 McLuha quote.
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 McLuha

cars

The world-pool of information fathered by electric media — movies, Telstar, flight — far surpasses any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. - Marshall McLuha quote.
The world-pool of information fathered by electric media — movies, Telstar, flight — far surpasses any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear.
— Marshall McLuha
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. - Marshall McLuha quote.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
— Marshall McLuha

art culture

The computer is by all odds the most extraordinary of all the technological clothing ever devised by man, since it is the extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. - Marshall McLuha quote.
The computer is by all odds the most extraordinary of all the technological clothing ever devised by man, since it is the extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.
— Marshall McLuha War and Peace in the Global Village

computers

I think of Art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system, that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
— Marshall McLuha Understanding Media

art