Language is a form of organized stutter. Marshall McLuhan More Quotes by Marshall McLuhan More Quotes From Marshall McLuhan 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. Marshall McLuhan tyrants business hands There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends. Marshall McLuhan mean people thinking Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. Marshall McLuhan identity spiritual meaningful Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. Marshall McLuhan influence behavior understanding All words, in every language, are metaphors. Marshall McLuhan metaphor media language Fish did not discover water. Marshall McLuhan fishes water 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 our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan media technology messages The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. Marshall McLuhan technology intelligent light In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. Marshall McLuhan vanishing wraps television Technology is that which separates us from our environment. Marshall McLuhan environment technology science Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. Marshall McLuhan racist trying firsts There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan ubuntu peace long Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Marshall McLuhan mom baby thinking The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form. Marshall McLuhan perception mother children Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product. Marshall McLuhan mass photography people Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. Marshall McLuhan alive people The future of work consists of learning a living. Marshall McLuhan entrepreneur inspirational Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. Marshall McLuhan environment boundaries I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form. Marshall McLuhan space men art Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. Marshall McLuhan environment media process
