Quote by Marshall McLuhan
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and ind

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. – Marshall McLuhan

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Business
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan

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Shopping
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Im really not interested in other peoples opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts. – H. G. Bissinger

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Society

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Society

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. – Johann Most

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Society

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. – John Stuart Mill

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Society

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Do not fall before you are pushed. – English Proverb

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Wise Words

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and its really – were thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way. – Phil Lesh

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thankful

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare

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Ethics

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didnt have the confidence to go along with the physical skill. – Bradley Cooper

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Sports