Let's see some phrases that represent or demonstrate others that you can be manipulated by them:

If I say what I’ve done, they will probably think that I am a fool or an idiot. This is the typical case in that you grant more importance to other people's opinion than to your own. If they can manipulate you, it is because they know that you don't want to be consider as a jerk and they will always look at you that way due to it. And they will do it that way with the purpose of tyrannizing, or controlling you.

I fear that if I do what I want to do, I will hurt the other ones’ feelings. This is a phrase that demonstrates a very subtle form that other people use to manipulate us, that is to say, the feelings of guilt. If the other ones realize that they can manipulate you demonstrating that you hurt them, this is in fact what they will do every time you come out of the row or declare your independence. About 95% of the wounded feelings are nothing more than pure strategy on the part of supposed offended people. People use the wounded feelings system time and again if you are quite candid to believe them. Of course that this doesn't mean a license to be inconsiderate, but it simply represents the simple conclusion that generally people stop using that method when they understand that it’s useless try to manipulate you that way. Whenever people think that they’ll succeed using this tactics, they will use it. But when you demonstrate them with facts and non words that you are a no manipulatable person and that you won’t play the game of the wounded feelings neither of the guilt, of course that the tactics will be useless and they eventually will stop using it.

They shouldn’t do that; that is not fair. With this phrase you’re demonstrating that you value things with a particular meter, that is to say, according to the mode in that you think the world should be, ignoring the way that the world really is. And although you don’t like that and always complain of such behaviors, you won’t try to change anything. Forget the moralists’ judgments about what the others should do and conclude that they are doing things the way they want because they are free people living in a free country. You can do something to improve that behavior, you can do something to improve the quality of life of humanity and that way try to compensate the many injustices of this world, but the great reality, the sad reality, is that in this world there is injustice and to live complaining unfortunately doesn't solve anything.

These examples are common phrases that eventually will transform you into a potential victim and lead you to your personal ruin. By analyzing yourself and your environment, you’ll realize the different attitudes and phrases that you’re used to and other people employ to manipulate you.

You should never feel depressed, wounded, hurt, or afflicted by the other’s attitude or when things don't come out the way you wanted, because definitively this is the victim's fundamental reaction, the reaction of a person that is ready to be manipulated.