A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

To divert electrical energy and circuitry into atomic bombs shows the same imaginative power as wiring the dining-room chairs to enable one to electrocute the sitter in the event that he might prove hostile.
From Cliché to Archetype, with Wilfred Watson, 1970, p 202
Year: 1970
Chapter: Bomb
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan