[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.
Marshall McLuhanThe modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
Marshall McLuhanThere are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
Marshall McLuhanTelevision is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.
Marshall McLuhan