For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. - Noam Chomsky
When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well. - Lloyd Alexander
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. - Frank Herbert
The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent. - Brian Vihlen
Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. - Evita Ochel
To have more peace, as well as more time, start by letting go of the notion that time can be manipulated. Then, let go of the idea that it confines you. Instead, set out to use the time that is there for its true and best purpose – as the space within which you can live your life to the fullest. - Michelle Passoff
Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go with it."(On Beauty: , Vogue, January 8, 2016) - Susan Sarandon
The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds - Deon Potgieter