Quotes By Marshall McLuhan

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

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.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.