Appendix:Snowclones/X is a good servant but a bad master

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X is a good servant but a bad master

  1. (snowclone) If something is used correctly, it will benefit but if it is used incorrectly, it will cause harm.
    • 2005, James Goodman, Paul James, Nationalism and Global Soldarities: Alternative Projections to Neoliberal Globalisation, pages 46–47:
      For the nationalists, generally following Keynes, there is the view that the 'real' economy that's matters, and that is this, finance is a good servant but a bad master.