More - Marshall McLuhan Quotes

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

Marshall McLuhan

 

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

Marshall McLuhan

 Canada

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.

Marshall McLuhan

 Cosmos

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

Marshall McLuhan

 Media

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age

Marshall McLuhan

 Age And Aging

In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Marshall McLuhan

 Danger Quotes

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

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Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

Marshall McLuhan

 Aggression Quotes