America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin