Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Marshall McLuhan

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• I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Choices

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Attention
  • Always
  • See

• I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Doing

• When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Important
  • Know
  • Smart

• There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • Space

• I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Character
  • Me
  • Look

• I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • I Can
  • Pace

• Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Values

• If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Work
  • You
  • Down

• 'TV Guide' is smart to aim toward women. More women will go there to find out what's on - just like when guys won't ask for directions, a woman will break out the map.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Smart

• We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Want
  • Old

• It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Will

• I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'Bird and beast and stone and star - we are all one, all one -' murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children. 'Child and serpent, star and stone - all one.'

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Star
  • Bird

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

  

  John Adams
  • Men

• Now color - it is to this remark that I wished to lead - is the flower of fine modelling. These two qualities always accompany each other, and it is these qualities which give to every masterpiece of the sculptor the radiant appearance of living flesh.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Color
  • Flower

• Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Music
  • Empowering
  • Lipstick

• I don't want to be too power-hungry.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Power

• The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Purpose
  • Traveler
  • Render

• Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • World
  • Suffering

• In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Relation

• The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

  

  Marshall McLuhan