Explore more quotes by Marshall McLuhan

"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."

Comfort, Rules, Today

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

Travel, Purpose, Now

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

Earth,

"Money is a poor man's credit card."

Money, Credit, Man, Poor

"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."

Technology, Consequences, Result

"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."

Future,

"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."

Public, Want

"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."

Work, Labor, Man

"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."

Man, Name

"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."

Despair, Feeling

Exlpore more Beginning quotes

"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always."

Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet

Beginning,

"Good seasons start with good beginnings."

Sparky Anderson, American Coach

Beginning, Beginnings, Seasons

"It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this."

Robert Asprin, American Author

Beginning, Collaboration

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Beginning, Nationalism

"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."

Bille August, Danish Director

Beginning,

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Beginning, Confession, Evil, First

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

Mary Austin, American Writer

Beginning, End, Moon

"The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning."

Michael D. Barnes, American Politician

Beginning, Fight, Laws, Safety

"I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up."

Paul Begala, American Journalist

Beginning, Democrats

"We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation."

Marsha Blackburn, American Politician

Beginning, Country, Debate, Nation