Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

— Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

— Marshall McLuhan

Affluence creates poverty.

— Marshall McLuhan

All media work us over completely.

— Marshall McLuhan

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

— Marshall McLuhan

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

— Marshall McLuhan

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

— Marshall McLuhan

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

— Marshall McLuhan

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

— Marshall McLuhan