Quotes About Escalation

The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.

Resentment increased on both sides, until any little accident could flare up into a fight.

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.

If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody.

Wars] can come in different shapes and guises, but always wars come in increments. I am convinced there are steps, and that once these events are set in motion, they are virtually impossible to reverse. There were other steps in the country's stumble toward war, and I remember these days clearly now. But again, at the time I did not recognize these days as such, not as steps but as days like any others.

This message was repeated down the line until it was ringing in every guard's ears. Shots fired and nobody knew from where or by whom. And since none of the guards had guns, that meant one of the prisoners must. Maybe more than one. Now things, already serious, morphed

It escalates, as it always does. Who knows what the neighbours must think. Stuart yells, I scream, he throws my vase full of flowers at the wall so that it shatters into a zillion pieces, sending water and petals everywhere.

I said that if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

If I cannot be better then them, I will become so much worse

If I cannot be better than them, I will become much worse.

If I can't be better then them, I will become so much worse

If I can't be better than them , I will become so much worse

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

You put up with little things … and then the little things gradually get bigger.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Privilege escalation is akin to freedom, and since I've deduced equality to be irrelevant, winning with no debt is what freedom is all about.

Blackwater is a company whose business depends on war and conflict to thrive. It operates in a demand-based industry where corporate profits are intimately linked to an escalation of violence. That

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.

All over the world, everybody always strikes out at the enemy, and the pain escalates forever. Every day we could reflect on this and ask ourselves, Am I going to add to the aggression in the world? Every day, at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?

If you dial', Iran said, eyes open and watching, 'for greater venom, then I'll dial the same. I'll dial the maximum and you'll see a fight that makes every argument we've had up to now seem like nothing. Dial and see; just try me!' She rose swiftly, loped to the console of her own mood organ, stood glaring at him, waiting.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

Like everything else, holiday gifts escalate. The presents get better and better until one year you decide you don't need anything else and start making donations to animal shelters. Even if you hate dogs and cats, they're somehow always the ones who benefit.