“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
“Money is just the poor man's credit card.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
Nature“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
Art“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”
Education“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“Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.”
Society“Money is a poor man's credit card.”
Money“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“Money is just the poor man's credit card.”
Money“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Art“A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.”
Society“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
Travel“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“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
Future“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
Communication“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Art“Art is anything you can get away with.”
Art“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.”
Age“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Environmental“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
Car