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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#antipathy #contempt #hate #love #true

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

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

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#anyone #between #distinction #education #either

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States. ↗

— Julian McMahon

#friend #our #powerful #should #speak

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#call #different #different language #every #great

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

#ads #any #archaeologists #day #discover

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#century #chair #couch #editorial #nineteenth