“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”
Education
“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.”
SocietyAll Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
“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“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“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“Money is a poor man's credit card.”
Money“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“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
Age“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
Age“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“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
Communication“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Environmental“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“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 car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
Car“Art is anything you can get away with.”
Art“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
Future“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“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“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