Quotes About Escalation

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

Im Nachhinein betrachtet habe ich denselben strategischen Fehler wie Charles Manson begangen. Ich hätte aufhören sollen, solange ich noch bloß eine stinknormale Tiersex- und Drogensüchtige war, aber nein, ich musste meinen Status zu einer potentiell messerschwingenden Psychopathin steigern

As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.

Coffee leads to cigarettes leads to cocaine and crystal methamphetamine.

An addict of any kind is always on the lookout for newer, more intense experiences. After a time he builds up an immunity to the rush of sensation he receives from his addiction. He seeks greater heights, higher stakes.

The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.

on the brink of war and then tumbling into it. The

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.

Avevamo in comune un'importante teoria sulle risse: quando pare che stia per scoppiarne una, mena per primo.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a little problem anymore.

The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict; the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division.

Violence breeds violence

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.

I introduced his head to the corner of the railing.

understood what happened when men under extreme duress were given the latitude to express their dissatisfactions unchecked—how quickly a wrong, real or imagined, could magnify in men's minds, how a single misconstrued incident or comment could make its way through the ranks.

It is the intensity of our reactions toward another person's problem that ensures not only the escalation but also the continuation of the problem itself.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

The significance of LBJ's personal traits accounted for the growing belief, especially by anti-war activists, that Vietnam was Johnson's War. His critics are correct in pointing to the role of these traits and in arguing that Johnson, commander-in-chief until 1969, possessed the ultimate power to stem the tide of escalation. He was the last, best, and only chance for the United States to pull itself out of the quagmire.

On July 29, 2008, paramilitary forces in South Ossetia began shelling Georgian villages. On the night of August 7, the government panicked. The Georgian military launched artillery into the enclave's provincial capital. And then the Russians struck after midnight. Putin's tanks and troops rolled south, the first Russian military invasion of a sovereign nation in nearly thirty years,

The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is inately media-related.