Famous quotes by Sociologists

Small: Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real
C. Wright Mills
"Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real"
C. Wright Mills, Sociologist
Small: Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultur
"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - tha
"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamilia
"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: The medium is the message
"The medium is the message"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty
"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living ro
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy
"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Publication is a self-invasion of privacy
"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of
"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"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterda
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information ov
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, its just the beginning
"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and end
"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: I wouldnt have seen it if I hadnt believed it
"I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be reli
"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, 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, Sociologist
Small: I dont necessarily agree with everything I say
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful
"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves mode
"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same r
"For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into
"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that infl
"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor
"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public
"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in t
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad a
"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist