Top 124 Deterrent Quotes & Sayings

India, being a sovereign state, has the right to decide what kind of nuclear deterrent New Delhi needs in respect of international security perception.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

Weight has never been a deterrent in finding the right role.

I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it as a deterrent to crime.

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

The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

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 poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

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

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 seen any research that would substantiate that point.

We are neither prepared to deal with dubious companies nor have the mechanism for swift investigation. What's more we don't even have a culture, which imposes stringent, debilitating and deterrent punishment on wrong doers.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support it. The U.S. won't allow it because it means inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons. The U.S. has continued to block it, and in fact blocked it again just a couple of days ago; it just wasn't widely reported. Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. intelligence points out, is deterrent, and the bottom line is that the U.S. and Israel don't want Iran to have a deterrent.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

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 corporate malfeasance.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.

If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so.

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.

And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

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

No mainstream politician believes in open borders, but a policy that uses its prolonged treatment of detained people as an ongoing deterrent to others has a deep flaw at its heart.

People resisted having weapons on airplanes, but I oversaw the federal air marshals. It's a deterrent. No one sees that weapon, but they are protected on that airplane, and it's a huge positive impact on safety.

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

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

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.

A 24-hour police surveillance system will act as a deterrent for anti-social elements.

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

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 has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

We felt it was very likely the fee would be a deterrent for people, and that 'WoW' would not sell as quickly as some of our previous games.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

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