Deterrent Quotes - Page 3

• Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Marine, Judgement, Royal

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.

  Christie Brinkley

  Workout, Needs, Busy

  "Celebrity Workout Exclusive: How Christie Brinkley Stays So Gorgeous". Shape Magazine Interview, www.shape.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

  David Steel

  Independent, Nuclear, Concepts

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• Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?

  Chris Rock

  America, Black, President

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• I will also ask my secretary of defense and joint chiefs to present recommendations for strengthening and augmenting our cyber command. As a deterrent against attacks on our critical resources, the United States must possess, and has to, the unquestioned capacity to launch crippling cyber counterattacks. And I mean crippling. Crippling.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Counter Attack, United States

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear deterrent is actually really ingrained in me.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Real, War, Childhood

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I do want to be very clear: I see our nuclear deterrent as absolutely core insurance for our national security.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Nuclear, Want, National Security

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on murder. In that case, a few executions save not only some people from being murdered but also some people from becoming murders.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Punishment, People, Becoming

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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

  Government, Justice Of God, World

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Strong, Silence, Leader

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Fate, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle East. But it's necessary to evade this by misrepresenting the convention, and I think maybe 100 percent of the media, or close to it, go along. But that's a critical issue. Actually, Syria's chemical weapons were developed largely as a deterrent to Israeli nuclear weapons. Also, not mentioned.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Media, Issues

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is on balance desirable to encourage Universal Jurisdiction, and to create pressure from below to make application of such jurisdiction as consistent as possible. I think this will act as a deterrent in some situations, although this impact will never be acknowledged by those affected as it would only embolden civil society to intensify its pressures.

  Richard A. Falk

  Thinking, Impact, Balance

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Mediocre

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.6, New York Review of Books

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• Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Punishment, Innocent Person, People

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• Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Powerful, Believe, Communication

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.27, New York Review of Books

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• Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Teacher, Real, Educational

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• 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 superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Iran, Leaving

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• I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

  Ali Sina

  Giving, Laughing, Psychology

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Character

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• I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Punishment, Support

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• The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

  Arleigh Burke

  War, Mind, Majors

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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 ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

  Auberon Waugh

  Long, Evil, Trying

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• Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Travel, Adventure, Nuclear

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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 the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Foundation, Essentials, Savages

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