Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 2

Canadian - Sociologist July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Marshall McLuhan

Live You Always Information

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.

Marshall McLuhan

Man World Feel Person

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Marshall McLuhan

World Political Action Enjoyment

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Marshall McLuhan

Today Rules Comfort Club

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Marshall McLuhan

Age Youth Voting American

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan

Education Know Entertainment First

Art is anything you can get away with.

Marshall McLuhan

Art You Anything Away

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Marshall McLuhan

Politics Happy Powerful Only

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

Marshall McLuhan

Experience Understanding Behavior Far

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Marshall McLuhan

May Schizophrenia Literacy Necessary

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

Art Cave Century Twentieth Century

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Art Culture Beginning Think

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Marshall McLuhan

Age Chair Couch Psychiatrist

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan

Say Everything Agree Necessarily

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Marshall McLuhan

Environmental World Advertising

Affluence creates poverty.

Marshall McLuhan

Money Poverty Affluence Creates

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Marshall McLuhan

Privacy Publication

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Marshall McLuhan

Us Data More About

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

Today Great Art People

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Marshall McLuhan

Failure Alone Car Think

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Marshall McLuhan

Man Money Poor Credit

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Marshall McLuhan

Work Man Labor Begins

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Marshall McLuhan

Immortality First Engine Printing

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

Marshall McLuhan

Car Man Aggressive Urban

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Art Culture Beginning Always

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

Marshall McLuhan

Business Magic See Go

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