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Deterrence Quotes

We’ve collected the best Deterrence Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Michael Shellenberger, Mohamed ElBaradei, Rod Lurie, Kersti Kaljulaid, Chung Mong-joon. Use them as an inspiration.

1
The nature of nuclear weapons makes it impossible to either ban the bomb or wipe out an enemy‘s arsenal. Nuclear deterrence was unavoidable.
Michael Shellenberger
2
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
3
The way that one feels about the story line of ‘Deterrence’ can tell us, I believe, about each person‘s conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism.
Rod Lurie
4
NATO‘s deterrence has always been adequate, and I’m not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all.
Kersti Kaljulaid
5
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
Chung Mong-joon
6
The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment – in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes – outweighs the risk of error.
Antonin Scalia
7
You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.
Chris Gibson
8
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice – that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.
Michael J. Knowles
9
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
10
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
John Spratt
11
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
12
Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they’re against it.
Ann Coulter
13
It is deterrence that has prevented the use of nuclear weapons by all states that possess them since 1945.
Tom Malinowski
14
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
15
Since most cyberwar is conducted covertly, governments avoid any public acknowledgment of their own abilities and shy away from engaging in any sort of ‘cyber diplomacy.’ Statecraft conducted in secret fails to create public norms for deterrence.
Jared Cohen
16
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
17
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
18
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.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
19
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
20
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