Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Values
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The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
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People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
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