“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
Car
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
CarAll Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
Communication“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”
Technology“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
Travel“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
Age“Money is a poor man's credit card.”
Money“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
Age“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Environmental“Money is just the poor man's credit card.”
Money“Art is anything you can get away with.”
Art“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.”
War“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”
Education“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.”
Technology“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.”
Politics“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.”
Alone“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
Future“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.”
Age“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.”
Business“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Art“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
Nature