“The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!

-Bacchus”

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”

“The usual Marxist line of argument runs: 'only successful socialist revolution will render possible the abolition of women's repression, the end of the destructive exploitation of nature, relief from the threat of nuclear destruction…' My thesis is that of Saul Kripke's antidescriptivism offers us the conceptual tools to solve this problem.”

“Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. It has long been used to justify the killing, subjugation and torture of another people. Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government.”

“Man is a tool-using animal…Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.”

“Private ownership of tools, a basis of freedom when tools are simple becomes a basis of enslavement when tools are complex.”

“Max: "Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you."
Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy)
Max: (throws another pinecone at him)
Iggy: "Quit throwing things at me!"
Max: "Glad you could join us.”

“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”