quotes by Marshall McLuhan

"I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say."
— Marshall McLuhan

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
— Marshall McLuhan

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!"
— Marshall McLuhan

"Our technology forces us to live mythically"
— Marshall McLuhan

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
— Marshall McLuhan

"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."
— Marshall McLuhan

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
— Marshall McLuhan

"With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. "
— Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man)

"The medium is the message."
— Marshall McLuhan

"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound."
— Marshall McLuhan

""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 much more powerful than he could ever be.""
— Marshall McLuhan

"In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses."
— Marshall McLuhan

"We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish."
— Marshall McLuhan

"The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be. "
— Marshall McLuhan

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
— Marshall McLuhan

"All
media
are
extensions
of
some
human
faculty-
psychic
or
physical."
— Marshall McLuhan (The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects)

"Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself?
McLUHAN: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant."
— Marshall McLuhan

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there."
— Marshall McLuhan

"Advertisements constitute the only 'good news' in the newspaper."
— Marshall McLuhan

"One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in."
— Marshall McLuhan (War and Peace In the Global Village)

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding."
— Marshall McLuhan (The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man)

""Our permanent address is tommorrow.""
— Marshall McLuhan

"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]"
— Marshall McLuhan (Galaxia Gutemberg, La)