Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Identity

  "Violence in the media". Canadian Forum, Volume 56, (p. 9), 1976.

• All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Quests, Violence

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Identity, Quests

• Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, People, Identity

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

• In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Men

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

• The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Generations, Violence

  "The Book of Probes: Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 201, 2011.

• Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environmental, Identity, Violence

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye, p. 514, 1987.

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