Marshall Mcluhan
21 quotations
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
Money is a poor man's credit card.
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Jokes are grievances.
The real news is bad news.
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.