Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
-
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
-
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
-
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
-
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
-
I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
-
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
-
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
-
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
-
There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
-
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
-
Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
-
The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
-
And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
-
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
-
When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.
-
He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
-
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
-
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
-
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
-
In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.
-
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
