Quotes About Deterrence

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.

Yet it is hard to find many wars that have resulted from miscommunications or misunderstandings. Far more often they break out because of malevolent intent and the absence of deterrence, or because a prior war ended without a clear resolution or without settling disagreements—in a manner of Rome's first two wars with Carthage. Again, Margaret Atwood was empirical when she wrote in her poem, "Wars happen because the ones who start them / think they can win.

Quando se neutraliza um atentado antes que ele se produza, ninguém se apercebe disso, ao passo que reagir com força, denunciar os culpados, isso sim, produz capital político.

Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

It's in the nature of defence that you rarely notice it.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

The point of the superpower is not to invade, it's not to drop the bombs, it's to be so strong that when you issue a warning, secretly or publicly, the other guy who listens and doesn't do it.

Crime does not decrease in proportion to the severest punishment.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other; on the contrary, they breed and reinforce each other. Punishment does not deter misconduct. It makes the offender more skillful in escaping detection. When children are punished they resolve to be more careful, not more obedient or responsible. Parents

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.

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 have been.