Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the li

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

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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Technology
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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

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Society
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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. – Marshall McLuhan

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Age
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War
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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War

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. – Arlen Specter

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War

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. – Nicolas Sarkozy

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War

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. – Will Durant

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War

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