“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.”

As quoted in The New York Times (2 July 1978)

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Concerning right-wing radio shortly before the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, in NOW (17 December 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript351_full.html <br class="br">Context: On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths — half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 13, “Autumn Leaves” (p. 277)

In an interview in the Washington DC City Paper, 6 Apr 1990
Interviews

Source: Manhood of Humanity (1921), p. 133. Chapter: Capitalistic Era.
Context: To regard human beings as tools — as instruments — for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker — they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

ME 13:364
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)

Speech to the UN Economic and Social Council, Geneva, Switzerland (9 July 1965)

Source: Finding Alice