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Marshall McLuhan Quotes
«Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
club, disguised, fist, FISTED, fists, flocks, market, researcher, researchers, shepherds, tyrant, utilities, utility
«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.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Television,
War
| Keywords:
battlefields, brutalities, brutality, living room, rooms, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
frame, framework, picture frame, technology
«The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Banks, data, One of Us, record
«The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
encounter, reverses, The Strange, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, until now
«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»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
A.D., composition, compositions, editorials, features, go into, magazine, newspaper, prominent
«The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising,
Business
| Keywords:
advertiser, background, go about, in the background, magic spell, quietly, slogan, slogans, The Advertiser, The Business, throbbing, throbs, tune
«Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Feelings
| Keywords:
accompany, antipathies, antipathy, dissimilarities, dissimilarity, views
«The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action,»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Technology
| Keywords:
aspect, electric, evaluate, evaluated, forcing, interdependence, medium, patterns, Personal life, practically, reconsider, reshape, reshaped, reshaping, restructure, restructuring, social action, social process, technology, thought process