Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads o

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. – Marshall McLuhan

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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society thats very image-conscious. Its a thin persons world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of. – Kevin Smith

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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. – Herbert Read

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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. – Abbie Hoffman

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? – Irv Kupcinet

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The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. – Joanna Baillie

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