Escalation Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

• 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… — Leon Panetta
• Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. — Dominique de Villepin
• This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed… — David Sheff
• 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… — Lindsey Graham
• 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… — Marya Mannes
• 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… — Cornel West
• 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… — Anna Louise Strong
• Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege. — Yasser Arafat
• 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… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• 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… — Donna Leon
• 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… — Barack Obama
• 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… — Samantha Power
• 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,… — Naomi Wolf
• Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice. — Helen Fisher
• 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… — Nhat Hanh
• Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death — Markus Zusak
• Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of… — Thomas Sowell
• The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. — Noam Chomsky
• Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of… — Mitch Kapor
• Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which… — Ali Abdullah Saleh

Who Wrote These Escalation Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Escalation Quotes as follows:

• 1 Escalation Quote by Dominique de Villepin
• 1 Escalation Quote by David Sheff
• 1 Escalation Quote by Lindsey Graham
• 1 Escalation Quote by Marya Mannes
• 1 Escalation Quote by Cornel West
• 1 Escalation Quote by Anna Louise Strong
• 1 Escalation Quote by Yasser Arafat
• 1 Escalation Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1 Escalation Quote by Donna Leon
• 1 Escalation Quote by Barack Obama
• 1 Escalation Quote by Samantha Power
• 1 Escalation Quote by Naomi Wolf
• 1 Escalation Quote by Helen Fisher
• 1 Escalation Quote by Nhat Hanh
• 1 Escalation Quote by Markus Zusak
• 1 Escalation Quote by Thomas Sowell
• 1 Escalation Quote by Noam Chomsky
• 1 Escalation Quote by Mitch Kapor
• 1 Escalation Quote by Ali Abdullah Saleh
• 1 Escalation Quote by Bill Luther
• 1 Escalation Quote by Leon Panetta