Marshall McLuhan Quotes

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

Marshall McLuhan

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• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Know
  • Difference
  • How

• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Grow

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Fall

• I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Man
  • Sexy

• You cannot make horses 'safe.'

  

  Zara Phillips
  • You
  • Make
  • Safe

• The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Best
  • State
  • Anarchy

• The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Time
  • Real
  • War

• When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Done
  • Road
  • Healing

• The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.

  

  Leo Strauss

• The taxpayers deserve accountability.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Accountability

• Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • True
  • Light

• I'm not really worried about writer's block.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People

• Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

  

  Jim Bakker
  • World
  • God
  • Why

• Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.

  

  Kygo
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Cool

• When you walk onto any set, it's usually primarily men. Which can be weird, especially when you're doing something emotionally challenging.

  

  Billie Lourd
  • Men
  • Weird

• You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Different
  • Real

• Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

  

  James Buchan
  • Violence
  • Profound

• I turned around and she kind of had some tears in her eyes.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Really
  • Brotherhood
  • Pass

• There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

  

  Marshall McLuhan