Marshall McLuhan Quotes

All of man's artefacts, whether hardware or software, whether bulldozers or laws of chemistry, are alike linguistic in structure and intent. (p. 227)

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• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Law
  • Police
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• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
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  • Help

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Love
  • Why

• This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
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  • Blue

• Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • Night
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• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money

• There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Free
  • Freedom

• In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

  

  Calvin Coolidge

• I challenge any American family to think about what they would do if they were invaded by a hostile force. If tanks pulled up outside their house, and there were armed men inside, would they send their kids out? A lot of Americans would fight that to the end.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Up
  • Men
  • Family

• I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu

• I'm doing a little bit of acting, but I can't really say it's going to be a career or even that I'm really suited to it. It's a whole other craft you have to study and be passionate about.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Study
  • Passionate
  • Craft

• I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  

  Judy Chicago
  • Art
  • Feminism
  • Humanism

• I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.

  

  Ray McKinnon
  • Picture
  • Being
  • Whatever

• All of man's artefacts, whether hardware or software, whether bulldozers or laws of chemistry, are alike linguistic in structure and intent. (p. 227)

  

  Marshall McLuhan