Top 69 Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Money is a poor man's credit card.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

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.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

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