Manipulation

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.
- Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626

...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected.
- Imgard Schloegl

When you learn to trust your emotions instead of manipulating them, you will experience true love.
- Lucy Alexis Smith

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
- Walter J. Lippmann, 1889 - 1974

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward, 1921 - 1994