#tool

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool? ↗

— William Hazlitt

#freedom #government-tool #porup-satire #truth #united-states-of-air

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#growing #information #mere #people #prime

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#expected #goals #impossible #inadequate #miracle

Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once in a while, put out something in a nice powder blue and shaped like a footstool or maybe like France. ↗

— Cuthbert Soup

#blue #footstools #france #shape #spaceships

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #depends #everything #laws #life

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#man #nothing #tools #without

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#technology #tools #technology

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#man

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #great #labor #means #money

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#before #body #body language #conversation #had