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“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Art is anything you can get away with.”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“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

“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes".”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage