Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

A pernicious error is, that multitude is divine because it is multitude.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.