Puppet Quotes

Some big businessmen did contribute to the Nazi election funds but German capitalism cannot be regarded, on the evidence, as having collectively brought fascism to power in any direct sense. Fascism in Germany was a mass movement brought to power through collusion with a bankrupt but traditional elite, not as the puppet of big business. (Richard Overy)
Look at your body- A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet. View quote
Madeleine Albright
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government. View quote
Pietro Badoglio
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. View quote
Alan Moore
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings. View quote
Sam Harris
Being the puppet master, it's like running Nintendo of America. View quote
Reggie Fils-Aimé
The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them. View quote
Che Guevara
I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet. (Dennis Rodman)
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made. View quote
Langston Hughes
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad. View quote
Garry Shandling
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. View quote
Rainn Wilson
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. View quote
Bob Balaban
I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him. View quote
Dan Fogelman
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. View quote
Kid Koala
Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet. View quote
Nydia Velazquez
Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other. View quote
Nina Conti
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. (William Jackson)
The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. View quote
William Jackson
Democracy, in this late stage of capitalism, has been replaced with a system of legalized bribery. All branches of government, including the courts, along with the systems of entertainment and news, are wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate state. Electoral politics are elaborate puppet shows. View quote
Chris Hedges
All strategical decisions in France are made by a non-French unelected oligarchy. The French political stage is a puppet theater, which explains the growing lack of interest for politics, among the French people. View quote
François Asselineau
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. View quote
Oriana Fallaci