KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Marshall Mcluhan Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Marshall Mcluhan

Showing 11-20 of 69 Quotes by Marshall Mcluhan

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

~Marshall Mcluhan

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Sociologist

Born: July 21st, 1911

Died: December 31st, 1980

Links

Find Marshall Mcluhan on Amazon

Related Authors

Zygmunt Bauman
Peter L. Berger
Pierre Bourdieu
Auguste Comte
Emile Durkheim
Ivan Illich
Robert Staughton Lynd
Lewis Mumford
Georg Simmel
Deborah Tannen

Popular Authors

Muhammad Ali Leo Buscaglia Ellen Degeneres Ruth Bader Ginsburg Charles De Montesquieu Dolly Parton Jenn Proske Tiger Woods

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1890 - H. P. Lovecraft

1601 - Pierre De Fermat

1833 - Benjamin Harrison

1881 - Edgar Guest

1886 - Paul Tillich

1892 - George Aiken

1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo

1907 - Shirley Booth

1908 - Al Lopez

1917 - Terry Sanford

Birthdays on August 20th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anger Courage Equality Friendship Gardening New Year's Romantic Work