Marshall McLuhan

"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."

"Art is anything you can get away with."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."

"Affluence creates poverty."

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

"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."

"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."

"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."

"The medium is the message."

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."