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    Marshall McLuhan
    “Art is anything you can get away with.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
    tags: art, humor
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “The medium is the message.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “All
    media
    are
    extensions
    of
    some
    human
    faculty-
    psychic
    or
    physical.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “Diaper spelled backwards is repaid , think about it.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions”
    ― Marshall McLuhan, Take Today: The Executive as Dropout
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “Our permanent address is tommorrow.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “All media work us over completely.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
    tags: media, social-networking, tech
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
    tags: art
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
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    Jacques Ellul
    “Propaganda begins when dialogue ends. (Quoted by Marshall McLuhan in McLuhan Hot & Cool)”
    ― Jacques Ellul
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “if it works it's obsolete”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
    tags: technology
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    Marshall McLuhan
    “A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
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    Edward R. Murrow
    “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
    ― Edward R. Murrow
    tags: government, media, news, politics
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    “(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
    "How do you find America?"
    "Turn left at Greenland.”
    ― Ringo Starr
    tags: america, beatles, geography, greenland, humor, media, wordplay
    723 likes

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    Jim Morrison
    “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: control, media, thinking
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Whoever controls the media, the
    images, controls the culture.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: influence, public-opinion
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: alone, charge, creativity, designer, energy, fame, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, loneliness, lonely, media, quote, quotes, recharge, solitude, victory
    408 likes

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    Dan Brown
    “The media is the right arm of anarchy.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: media
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    Jim Morrison
    “Do you know we are being led to
    Slaughters by placid admirals

    & that fat slow generals are getting
    Obscene on young blood

    Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
    ”
    ― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
    tags: control, corruption, media, television
    145 likes

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    Jess C. Scott
    “People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
    tags: dark-humor, entertainment, herd-mentality, humor, hype, mainstream-media, mass-media, media, mindlessness, pop-culture, sheep, sheep-mentality, sheeple, television
    179 likes

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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
    1109 likes

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    Salman Rushdie
    “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom
    1134 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, Essays
    tags: censorship
    216 likes

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    John Morley
    “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
    ― John Morley, On Compromise
    tags: censorship
    134 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: censorship, free-inquiry, free-speech, irony
    114 likes

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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
    3068 likes

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    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war
    735 likes



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