Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Marshall MacLuhan
Marshall Mac Luhan
Today
Club
Flocks
Way
Clubs
Shepherds
Market
Tyrant
Rules
Researchers
Comfort
Utility
Ways
Fists
Researcher
Business
Deception
Disguised
Hands
Tyrants
Fist
More quotes by Marshall McLuhan
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
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
Marshall McLuhan
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
Marshall McLuhan
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
Marshall McLuhan
Fish did not discover water.
Marshall McLuhan
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
Marshall McLuhan
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Marshall McLuhan
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
Marshall McLuhan
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Marshall McLuhan
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Marshall McLuhan
If it works, it's obsolete.
Marshall McLuhan
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
Marshall McLuhan
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Marshall McLuhan
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
Marshall McLuhan
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Marshall McLuhan
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
Marshall McLuhan
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
Marshall McLuhan
