Escalation Quotes

“When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.”
― Mary Crocker Cook, Awakening Hope. A Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

“Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren’t much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

“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.”
― Ágnes Heller

“If you have a problem with someone or you feel violated or you're not happy with their service or whatever the other person is doing. In life there are levels of escalations to solve any problem or the sort out the differences. Choose to know this life levels of escalation.

LIFE LEVELS OF ESCALATION
1. Choose to speak to the person. Notifying them of their doing, and to confirm if they know and understand what they are doing. Ask them about their actions.
2. Choose to tell them, on how you feel or what they are doing or not doing makes you feel.
3. If the person persist. Choose to call on, other people that are close to him /her to assist. Like his parents, family members , elderly people or friends.
4. If they persist and whatever they are doing is wrong. Choose to report them to the authority.
5. If they persist, then you can choose to report them to social media.

Whenever you report someone. Ask yourself this questions .
You report them, because you want the person to stop what they doing and seek some help or
you report them, because you want to expose them, to hurt them, to get them into trouble and for them to pay for what they did?”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The Escalation Game is not an exotic brainteaser. Real life presents us with quandaries in which we are, as the saying goes, in for a penny, in for a pound. They include long-running labor strikes, dueling lawsuits, and literal wars of attrition, in which each nation feeds men and matériel into the maw of the war machine hoping the other side will exhaust itself first. The common rationale is “We fight so that our boys will not have died in vain,” a textbook example of the sunk-cost fallacy but also a tactic in the pathetic quest for a Pyrrhic victory. Many of the bloodiest wars in history were wars of attrition, showing once again how the infuriating logic of game theory may explain some of the tragedies of the human condition. Though persisting with a certain probability may be the least bad option once one is trapped in an Escalation Game, the truly rational strategy is not to play in the first place.”
― Steven Pinker, Rationality

“Choose containable violence when violence cannot be avoided. Better this than epidemic violence.
— Lessons of Choice, The BuSab Manual”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

“What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“Escalation is the key consequence of refusing to problem-solve or negotiate, and it demands our attention as a central obstacle to peace and justice.”
― Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair