The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider…

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations…

— John Stossel

If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that…

— John Taylor Gatto

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons…

— Bernard Lewis

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

— Winifred Kirkland

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there…

— David Davis

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice…

— Matt Taibbi

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

— Oliver D. Crisp

“…a dog the best deterrent to an intruder”

— Margaret Mizushima

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

— Francis Schaeffer

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one…

— Auberon Waugh

A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily…

— Richard Engel

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

— John F. Kennedy

And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect,…

— Cass Sunstein

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile…

— Noam Chomsky

Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where…

— Daniel Inouye