“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Environmental
“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
AgeAll Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”
Education“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
Age“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”
Technology“Art is anything you can get away with.”
Art“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
Art“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“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“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“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
Art“Money is a poor man's credit card.”
Money“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“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“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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
Nature“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
Travel“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“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”
Experience“The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.”
Technology