Deterrent Quotes
56 quotes by 53 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
— Edward Abbey
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The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.
— John F. Kennedy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
— Robert McNamara
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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
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Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
— Francis Schaeffer
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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
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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
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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
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to…
— James Surowiecki
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