Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician wi

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. – Marshall McLuhan

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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. – Marshall McLuhan

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Propaganda
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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan

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Art
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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Im not really involved with politics… Im living in my cocoon with my classical music around. – Eva Green

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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago. – Robert Teeter

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I always voted at my partys call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. – William Gilbert

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Government is essentially immoral. – Herbert Spencer

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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. – Walter Kaufmann

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When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights. – Omar Bongo

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