"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."
― Marshall McLuhan
Topic(s):
Sympathy
More From Marshall McLuhan
- "Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
- "American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age."
- "The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
More In Sympathy
- "That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."― William Wordsworth
- "Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."― Moshe Dayan
- "Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?"― Malcolm Turnbull