Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

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

Art is whatever you can get away with.

It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the la...

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

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

Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Surviva...

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

Affluence creates poverty.

The formula for this brand of historical writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can b...

All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime,

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.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

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

The medium is the message.

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

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

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 ou...