Quotes About Deterrence

#1. The hyperreal is the abolition of the real not by violent destruction, but by its assumption, elevation to the strength of the model. Anticipation, deterrence, preventive transfiguration, etc.: the model acts as a sphere of absorption of the real.

Jean Baudrillard

#2. Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Herman Kahn

#3. Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

David Lange

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

Bashar Al-Assad

#8. The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

Joseph Rotblat

#9. The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

Marco Rubio

#10. Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Charles Krauthammer

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

Charles Horner

#14. We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

John Spratt

#15. No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Hannah Arendt

#16. The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.

Steven Pinker

#17. Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Sterling Hayden

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Chung Mong-joon

#22. This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.

Liu Cixin

#23. Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

Jerry Pournelle

#24. 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

#25. Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Ann Coulter

#26. You are only as good as your reach, you must hold hands with others

Peter Legge

#27. Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

Trent Zelazny

#28. A mind stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Progressive Physician, Author

Cary Ellis

#29. My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Emma Watson

#30. I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

Chaz Bono

#31. Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Rajneesh

#32. What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though ...

Brian Molko

#33. It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord Byron

#34. Charlotte Rampling, when she was younger, looked exactly like my wife. That's one of the reasons that when I first saw my wife, my knees buckled. Based on her looks alone, she was already in my kitchen making eggs.

Denis Leary

#35. Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.

Frederick Lenz

#36. The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

Mo Ibrahim

#37. In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

Charlie Chaplin

#38. Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Mika.