Deterrence Quotes

22 quotes by 19 authors

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime… — Hannah Arendt
The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win as an integral… — Norton A. Schwartz
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be… — Thomas Szasz
The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We… — Ronald Reagan
The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment,… — Victor Davis Hanson
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. — Herman Kahn
New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox… — David Lange
Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them,… — David Lange
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. — John Spratt
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one… — George Bernard Shaw
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much… — John Hersey
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain… — Barbara Deming
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. — Sterling Hayden
A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and… — Alva Myrdal
Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. — Ann Coulter
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your… — Natan Sharansky
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. — Hannah Arendt
So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on… — Mohamed ElBaradei
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. — Joseph Rotblat
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to… — John Bolton

Who Wrote These Deterrence Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 22 Deterrence Quotes as follows: