Famous Marshall McLuhan Quotes

  • I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer. – Marshall McLuhan

    I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.– Marshall McLuhan

  • To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. – Marshall McLuhan

    To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.– Marshall McLuhan

  • if it works it’s obsolete – Marshall McLuhan

    if it works it’s obsolete– Marshall McLuhan

  • First we build the tools, then they build us. – Marshall McLuhan

    First we build the tools, then they build us.– Marshall McLuhan

  • I don’t necessarily agree with everything that I say. – Marshall McLuhan

    I don’t necessarily agree with everything that I say.– Marshall McLuhan

  • All words, in every language, are metaphors. – Marshall McLuhan

    All words, in every language, are metaphors.– Marshall McLuhan

  • We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. – Marshall McLuhan

    We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.– Marshall McLuhan

  • Only the vanquished remember history. – Marshall McLuhan

    Only the vanquished remember history.– Marshall McLuhan

  • Art is anything you can get away with. – Marshall McLuhan

    Art is anything you can get away with.– Marshall McLuhan

  • Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan

    Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.– Marshall McLuhan