Escalation Quotes

• Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Responsibility, Passivity Is, Passivity

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• Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Numbers, Vietnam, Aggression

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Lindsey Graham

  Pay, Kind, Senate

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. February 27, 2005.

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• In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

  Anna Louise Strong

  War, Vietnam, Facts

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• We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

  Barack Obama

  People, Risk, Casualties

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

  Samantha Power

  War, Vietnam, Realizing

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• The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.

  John Carmack

  Games, Design, Suffering

  "John Carmack discusses RAGE on iPhone/iPad/iPod" by John Carmack, www.bethblog.com. October 26, 2010.

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• The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

  Nhat Hanh

  Suffering, Trying, Relief

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.25, Penguin

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• Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death

  Markus Zusak

  Talent, Humans

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• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wicked, Suave, Littles

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• And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

  Cornel West

  Reality, Persistence, Two

  Cornel West (2017). “Race Matters: With a New Introduction”, p.107, Beacon Press

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• Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

  Marya Mannes

  Desire, Ends

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• I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

  Donna Leon

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Siege, Financial

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• The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

  Mary Schmich

  Phones, Cells, Skills

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• The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

  Marya Mannes

  Success, Real, Anxiety

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• Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

  Helen Fisher

  Powerful, Kissing, Choices

  "Pucker up: Scientists study kissing" by Elizabeth Landau, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2009.

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• The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Illustration, Target, Classic

  Interview with Paula Zahn, edition.cnn.com. May 30, 2002.

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• These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Military, Struggle, Law

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• Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation.

  George Aiken

  War, United States, Cold

  "George Aiken, Longtime Senator and G.O.P. Maverick, Dies at 92" by Albin Krebs, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 1984.

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• In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Marijuana, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out.

  Edward Kennedy

  Military, Speaks Out, Iraq

  "Official: First wave of troops to Iraq by Jan. 30". www.nbcnews.com. January 9, 2007.

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• The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.

  Leon Panetta

  Regret, Thinking, Middle East

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• At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Men, Doctors

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• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  Naomi Wolf

  Watches, Pace, Way

  "Naomi Wolf v Alan Wolfe, round two". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2007.

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