Marshall Mcluhan
Canadian professor and philosopher
Lived from: 1911 - 1980
Category: Scientists Country: 
Canada
Born: 21 july 1911 Died: 31 december 1980
Quotes 21 till 39 of 39.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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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.
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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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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.
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The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
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The real news is bad news.
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The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
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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.
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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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.
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
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