Deterrent Quotes

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Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally… — Omar N. Bradley
First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports. — Dominique Wilkins
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that… — Andrei Sakharov
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
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out… — Albert Pierrepoint
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the… — Thurgood Marshall
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers,… — John C. McAdams
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey
The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery. — John F. Kennedy
When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great… — Leonard Ravenhill
One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would… — Henry A. Kissinger
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden… — Henry Hazlitt
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action. — Robert McNamara
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at… — Warren E. Burger
Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage. — Francis Schaeffer
I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not… — Janet Reno
A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and… — Yamini Krishnamurthy
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But, if recent history has taught us anything, itâ€™s that self-regulation doesnâ€™t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to… — James Surowiecki

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