Marshall McLuhan Quotes
It is only puny secrets that need protecting. Great secrets are protected by public incredulity.
Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian Social & Communications Philosopher, Quoted by Amory Lovins, PBS, The Charlie Rose Show, November 28, 2006
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CREEP in the Nixon Campaign
Often quoted by historians and victims of state murders and wartime atrocities.
Privacy was a much more important value then and for Smith and most contemporaries there should be NO compromising records kept at all. Keeping records secret was itself an unacceptable compromise.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC was a Canadian philosopher, whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the US and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life.
