One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.