Escalation quotes

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
-- Dominique de Villepin

#Responsibility #Escalation #Passivity
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 #Escalation
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
-- Marya Mannes

#Desire #Ends #Escalation

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
I really need a gin and tonic.
I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.
A lot of people take shots at news channels.
Nourish the world with your words, yo.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.