Marshall McLuhan Quotes
1911–1980 Canada
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July 1911 – 31 December 1980) was a Canadian philosopher, futurist, and communications theorist.
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Also known as: McLuhan, Marshall, Mcluhan
348 quotes
Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
The sculptural qualities of the image dim down the purely personal identity. (p. 369)
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation. (p. 77)
Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130)
Non-literate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. (p. 41)
Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18)
Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically. (p. 166)
All advertising advertises advertising – no ad has its meaning alone. (p. 145)
The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all levels. (p. 99)
Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. (p. 253)
Violence is the effort to maintain and restore a weakened psyche. (p. 377)
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. (p. 84)
The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images. (p. 360)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marshall McLuhan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.