~ Marshall McLuhan Quotes ~

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Marshall McLuhan Quotes


A Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.

Here are some famous quotes by Marshall McLuhan.

The medium is the message.

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Money is the poor people's credit card.

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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

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It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.

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The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

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One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation violence is the natural recourse.

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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.

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You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.