Quotes About Deterrence

He told me havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

The message to Beijing and Moscow would be unmistakable. You fuck with the United States at your peril. CHAPTER

After receiving his first briefing on nuclear weapons in September 1953, Khrushchev later recalled, "I couldn't sleep for several days. Then I became convinced that we could never possibly use these weapons.

Send Iran a clear message that if we are assaulted, we will meet it and trump it.

In the past decade, the distance between those who see nuclear disarmament as the best policy for global peace and stability and those who see nuclear deterrence as the cornerstone of the world order has increased. The division is often stark and binary, with little middle ground, save for the world's greatest nuclear power, the United States, who confusingly appears to pursue both, mutually exclusive policies simultaneously.

Let's not go there.' 'That's what people always say about places where they already are.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

Justice can help reduce sexual violence: bringing to justice those soldiers responsible for sexual violence discourages other soldiers from committing such crimes.

Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Nuclear weapons can do it quickly. That makes a difference.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.

As a result, no nation-state today dared even to contemplate an attack on America.

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.