Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

We have left and right; religious and secular; Druse; ultra-Orthodox women. Unity is very important.

Europe has to be about more than market, goods, and money.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

The scene in South Florida when we were growing up, it wasn't divided. It wasn't different scenes. If you played loud or crazy music, you were on the same show.

Some of us care about this - justice and unity - just because it's in style right now.

The real friend is another self.

Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.

For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.