Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 3

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• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Get Away, Artist

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

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• As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Looks

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• The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Views, Old Things

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• Affluence creates poverty.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Poverty, Affluence, Poor

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, People, Mass

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• Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Science, Discovery

  Marshall McLuhan, Barrington Nevitt (1972). “Take today; the executive as dropout”, [Don Mills

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• Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Understanding, Influence, Behavior

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• Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Change, Growth, Belief

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• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Messages

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

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• I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Careful, Happened

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.172, McClelland & Stewart

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• Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Jobs, Yesterday

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• The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Impact, Messages

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• The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Intelligent, Technology, Light

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Media, Perception

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Wisdom, Art, Errors

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Automation, Characteristics

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• Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Marketing, Environmental, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.2, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Years, Hostile, Fellows

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• The mother tongue is propaganda.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Tongue, Propaganda

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Hands, Games

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• If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Transformation

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• The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Singing, Riding, Advertising Business

  "The Mechanical Bride". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1951.

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• The future of work consists of learning a living.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur

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• I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Doubt, May

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• Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environment, Process

  American scholar, Volume 35, (p. 200), 1965.

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