The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Marshall McLuhan quote 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.
Marshall McLuhan quote Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan quote It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Marshall McLuhan quote 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 quote Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan quote Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan quote Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan quote Biography
Canadian communications scholar
