Quotes from Marshall McLuhan

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

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

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

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.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

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.

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.

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.

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.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

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

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.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.