Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a ma

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

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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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan

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Age
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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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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. – Karl Marx

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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. – Hilaire Belloc

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In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice. – Tony Alesandra

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Shopping

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. – Plutarch

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Shopping

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Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be. – Carrie Fisher

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. – Oscar Wilde

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If youre under 26, you can stay on your parents plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents plans. – Kathleen Sebelius

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

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