Escalation Quotes

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

Violence breeds counter-violence.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

You are giving them a sword if you say you will use a sword yourself.

Violence never solves problems. It may cover them up temporarily because of the fear it is intended to inspire, but it is part of a cycle, not the end of a cycle.

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

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

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Every solution breeds new problems.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

I think a weakened, fragmented, chaotic Iraq, which could happen if this isn’t done carefully, is more dangerous in the long run than a contained Saddam is now.

The more I yielded, the more unreasonable their demands became.