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Letter "M" » Marshall McLuhan Quotes
«American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
arriving, attributes, driver, license, licensed, licenses, licensing, voting, voting age
«There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
enormous, left hand, poorly, redundancy, right-handed, right hand, the left, well-written, work on
«Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, favor, imagery, only too, politician, replaced, The Image
«Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
art form, century, The 20th Century
«Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.»
«The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
central, central nervous system, clothing, computer system, extension, hoop, hoops, hula-hoop, hula, nervous, technological, The wheel, wheel
«Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.»
«Typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
expressing, transcribe, transcribed, transcribing, typewriter
«A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Danger
| Keywords:
insight, luxury, point of view, substituted
«All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
arbitrary, artificial, invest, media, perceptions
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