Quotes for All
What rights have women? … [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets. Ernestine Rose
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. Eric Hoffer
The president is the country’s scapegoat more than the country’s leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master. Eric Andre
He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It’s like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of … Read more
A Clock stopped– Not the Mantel’s– Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing– That just now dangled still Emily Dickinson
You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to – so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true. Emily Blunt
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. Emile M. Cioran
I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside. Emile M. Cioran
Religion is for followers… Followers and puppets. Ellen Hopkins
You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity – you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be … Read more