“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
“Money is just the poor man's credit card.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
“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“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
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“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“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”
Technology“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
Car“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”
Education“Money is just the poor man's credit card.”
Money“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”
Experience“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
Future“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.”
Art“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Art“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Environmental“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
Travel“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'”
Age“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
Age“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
Communication“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