Marshall McLuhan Short Quotes

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Typography cracked the voices of silence.

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The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture.

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Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

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Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.

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Color is not so much a visual as a tactile medium.

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A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

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Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

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Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

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History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order.

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The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

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In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin.

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Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension.

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People never remember but the computer never forgets.

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There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life.

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Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

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A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor?

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The new science of communication is percept, not concept.

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The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

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Privacy invasion is now one of biggest knowledge industries.

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Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible.

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When this circuit learns your job, what are you going to do?

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There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

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The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.

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Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

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Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society.

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The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.

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The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images.

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The automated presidential surrogate is the superlative nobody.

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