“We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”
Alan Moore book Watchmen
Source: Doctor Manhattan, in Watchmen #9 (referring to Doctor Manhattans's theory of time)
“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan
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Everett Dean Martin (1880–1941)
Source: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 142
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris at Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012, Discussion on Free Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3raA1EwrI. <br class="br">2010s
“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”
Sam Harris book Free Will (book)
Source: Free Will
Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) Social psychologist
As quoted in The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India (1979) by V. R. Krishna Iyer
Context: It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. The fact that obedience is often a necessity in human society does not diminish our responsibility as citizens. Rather, it confers on us a special obligation to place in positions of authority those most likely to use it humanely. And people are inventive. The variety of political forms we have seen in history are only several of many possible political arrangements. Perhaps the next step is to invent and to explore political forms that will give conscience a better chance to resist errant authority.
“We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Behind the parliamentary puppets stands the Master of Money.”
Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) American writer
The Enemy of Europe (1953)
“Life — is it anything more than a machine to which money imparts the motion?”
Honoré de Balzac book Gobseck
La vie n'est-elle pas une machine à laquelle l'argent imprime le mouvement? <br class="br"> p. 26, 1921 édition https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158007362832;view=1up;seq=63 <br class="br">Gobseck (1830)