Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Life
Tongue
World
Perception
Shapes
Greatest
Unconsciously
Learn
Perceptions
Mother
Propaganda
Form
Extreme
Children
Extremes

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
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
Image
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan