A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Radical changes of identity happening in very sudden, brief intervals of time have proved more deadly and destructive to human values than were wars fought with hardware weapons.
“Man and Media,” lecture delivered at York University, Toronto, (1979), in Understanding Me (2003), p 286
Quote #7259
Year: 1979
Chapters: Anticipating Change | Dropout | Identity | Living Unity | McLuhanisms & Zingers | Values & Value Judgments | Violence | Warnings
↪ Also at #369, #2854, #4290, #7291, #7441
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