“Men have become the tools of their tools.”– Henry David Thoreau Related Quotes “There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.”– Friedrich Nietzsche “It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”– Diogenes “The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”– Ayn Rand