Deterrent Effect Quotes

#1. A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Warren E. Burger

#2. We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.

Des Browne

#3. If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Jed S. Rakoff

#4. 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.

David Davis

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

Jed S. Rakoff

#6. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

#7. I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Joseph Addison

#9. Happy are the downtrodden.

Boris Pasternak

#10. If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.

Russell Westbrook

#11. The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.

Eric Byrnes

#12. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from; The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer, This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.

Walt Whitman

#13. You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.

Frederick Lenz

#14. What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Louise Bernikow

#15. I grasped the who, and that was enough when I didn't understand the why. What I have learned along the way, and what Job learned too, is that it is better to know God than to know the answers!

Kasey Van Norman

#16. While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.

Paul Gillmor

#17. It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

Bill Gates

#18. God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Euripides

#19. It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Gilbert Murray