Citizens Quote by Pico Iyer

In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs…

— Konstantin Pobedonostsev

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

— Leo Buscaglia

You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.

— John Pinette

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

— James Bobin

“One can see [...] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those…

— Peter Moon

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

— Subramanian Swamy

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

— Benjamin Franklin

Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put…

— Wayne White

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a…

— Masashi Kishimoto

Puppets can get away with saying things that human beings can't. Because they are cartoonish just to look at, they're not real, you can…

— Paul F. Tompkins

What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march…

— Kate Langley Bosher