Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

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.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.