Quotes About Escalation

Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

but now it was no longer simply enough to ambush and gun down the enemy. They had to be mutilated and, just as often, scalped. When that was no longer enough, the dead were stripped and castrated. In time, even that was insufficient. Then the victims were beheaded. And even that wasn't enough. So ears were cut off, faces were hacked, bodies were grossly mangled. Soon

Nimic nu-i mai contagios ca violen?a. Ea se ia ca tifosul ?i se încrânceneaz? în fa?a obstracolului.

If Landon took the high road, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, and the Union party took the low. Alarmed at Lemke's failure to gain traction, Union party rhetoric escalated to a level of vituperation seldom seen in American public life. "I'll teach them how to hate," Smith boasted. "Religion and patriotism, keep going on that. It's the only way you can get them really 'het up.'

Lives were complicated. The smallest things could trip you up. Those who could least afford it paid the most. Things could escalate in a heartbeat. The biggest mystery was how to turn it down without bowing down. And a life, in all its singularity and strangeness, was always worth the lifting, the telling, and the protecting, and never only for its fragility.

And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers.

What was he supposed to do besides break the living room window? Stand outside whacking off while she grabbed a cell phone and called for help?

Pour éviter l'escalade de générosité, il n'y a d'autre solution que d'accepter courageusement les offrandes somptueuses

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

There has been a steady escalation of conditions since our first discussions in Chapter 2. Then we talked about plain old graphs. Subsequently we restricted our attention to planar graphs, then to planar connected graphs, then to planar connected graphs with each edge bordering two faces (polygonal graphs), and now to planar connected regular graphs with each edge bordering two faces and all faces bounded by the same number of edges (platonic graphs).

he grabs his pistol when I thought this was a knife fight, and, well, it's a very upsetting moment. I

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting. Revenge always escalates.

just as in 1914 the murder of an Austrian archduke sparked the First World War, so in 2018 some incident in the Syrian desert or an unwise move in the Korean peninsula might ignite a global conflict.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?

Right, enough talk. I think it's time Mister Vassikin was introduced to my friend, Mister Fist.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

The search for the Green River Killer had already escalated into the biggest and most expensive manhunt in US history.

you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

Every gesture of retribution carries in it the risk of escalation. It is not an insignificant possibility that the morally right may result in the morally wrong.