Deterrence Quotes

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.
Ann Coulter

Work, Time, Against

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 has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt

Time, Power, Enough

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 classic theories of deterrence.
John Bolton

Life, Subject, Happier

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
Herman Kahn

Value, Values, Morality

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 'deterrence'.
Alva Myrdal

Great, Balance, Written

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 friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Natan Sharansky

Peace, Today, Enemy

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.
Joseph Rotblat

Philosophy, Present, Nuclear

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 nuclear deterrence.
Mohamed ElBaradei

Different, Trying, Security

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
Yoshihiko Noda

Country, Keep, Difficult

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Barbara Deming

Doubt, Try, Others

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
Sterling Hayden

Art, Fear, Mind

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
John Spratt

Order, Achieve, Nuclear

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 as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
John Hersey

Fear, Sense, Since

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
Charles Horner

Work, Outside, Nuclear

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