Marshall McLuhan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Marshall McLuhan quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased sociologist born on Jul 21, 1911). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 69 we have for him.

“Affluence creates poverty.”

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”

“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”

“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”

“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”

“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.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”

“The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.”

“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.”