Quotes By Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

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.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

Affluence creates poverty.

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

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