Deterrence quotes:

Send

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. -- Herman Kahn
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. -- Sterling Hayden
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. -- C. Robert Kehler
Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets. -- George Lee Butler
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. -- Joseph Rotblat
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. -- John Spratt
Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that. -- Charles Horner
Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. -- Ann Coulter
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. -- Paul Bloom
I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence. -- Bashar al-Assad
Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage. -- Charles Krauthammer
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. -- Hannah Arendt
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
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable. -- George Bernard Shaw

Send