“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“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 (1911-1980)
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“if it works it's obsolete”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“Advertisements constitute the only 'good news' in the newspaper.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
"New technologies are always used to do old tasks—until some driving force causes them to be used in new ways."
—Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t the fish.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)