Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 4

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• Fish did not discover water.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Water, Fishes

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Invasion

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• All words, in every language, are metaphors.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Language, Metaphor

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Change, Mirrors, Views

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

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• Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Gutenberg, Machines, Made

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 15 May 1977

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• An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

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  Real, Men, Inspire

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technique, Moral, Dignity

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• The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Children, Perception

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• Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

  Marshall McLuhan

  People, Alive

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• There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Errors

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• When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Patterns, Information, Recognition

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• I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Believe, Thinking, Want

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• The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Car, Shells

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 224

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• First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

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  Tools, Shapes, Firsts

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• The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Patterns, Action

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

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• All advertising advertises advertising.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Advertising

  "The Book of Probes". Book by Marshall McLuhan (p. 145), 2011.

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• I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Ideas, Propaganda

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.270, McClelland & Stewart

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• The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Moving, Knowledge

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

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• The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Communication, Feelings

  "Essential McLuhan" edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, (p. 73), 1995.

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• The most human thing about us is our technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Humans

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• With the arrival of electric technology, man 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 and 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

  Suicidal, Technology, Men

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Media

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Peace, Ubuntu, Long

  "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

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  Helping, Youth, Revolutionary

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