the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions Marshall McLuhan More Quotes by Marshall McLuhan More Quotes From Marshall McLuhan For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. Marshall McLuhan spacetimemen The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. Marshall McLuhan revulsionconformitypatterns Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. Marshall McLuhan phenomenologyrootsears Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. Marshall McLuhan advertisingbusinessgoal The most human thing about us is our technology. Marshall McLuhan technologyhumans 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. Marshall McLuhan fateamericathinking 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. Marshall McLuhan militarymotivationalinspirational First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us Marshall McLuhan shapestoolsfirsts All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. Marshall McLuhan mediatechnologyart Our permanent address is tommorrow. Marshall McLuhan addressespermanent All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody. Marshall McLuhan questsviolenceidentity The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. Marshall McLuhan agecharacterscience People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath. Marshall McLuhan hotmorningpeople The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement. Marshall McLuhan alphabetdetachmenttechnology The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. Marshall McLuhan vigilanceindifferencedefense Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes. Marshall McLuhan electricitydoe Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. Marshall McLuhan egolandpeople Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. Marshall McLuhan dignitymoraltechnique A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. Marshall McLuhan understandingmatterviews We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Marshall McLuhan mirrorschangeviews
