Appetite is essentially insatiable, and... by Marshall McLuhan | We Heart Quotes

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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

- Marshall McLuhan

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We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

- Marshall McLuhan

Care Thought Writing

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

- Marshall McLuhan

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

- Marshall McLuhan

Education First

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

- Marshall McLuhan

Beginning End

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

- Marshall McLuhan

War

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

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