“You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.”

“Manipulated, one manipulates others.”

“Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head… the rational manipulation… as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.”

“The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.”

“If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.”

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”

“Ale: Are you manipulating me again?
T. C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.”

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.”

“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”

“To be manipulative is to speak and act in a way that guarantees that we get the response we want to get from other people. So you see, manipulation is how most of us try to get love. Manipulation is how most of us try to get safety… because we do not trust the world to be kind to us. Everyone is manipulative, we are simply more or less aware of that aspect within ourselves.”