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  • 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?

    Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.138, Penguin
  • Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

    Powerful   Military   War  
    Source: www.achievement.org
  • When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

    Christian   Men   Law  
    Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.77, Fig
  • Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

    Prayer   Gossip   Praying  
  • If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call.

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

    Israel   Nuclear   Bombs  
    "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent" by Ronny Sofer, www.ynetnews.com. September 1, 20070.
  • In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

    "Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.
  • The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

    Country   Nuclear   Want  
    "Can Sanctions End Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 21, 2011.
  • one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

    Money   Successful   Ego  
    Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
  • One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

    Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The essence of security: reflections in office”
  • I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

  • The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.

    Philosophy   War   Iran  
  • Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

    School   Gun   Virginia  
    Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Revenge   Believe   Views  
  • People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.

    Mean   Scotch   Glasses  
  • Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

  • In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people not to work, you will create jobs. It not only fails to factor in the obvious deterrent that extended benefits have on their recipients but also falsely assumes that transferring money from one pocket to the next generates more spending - by some mythical multiple factor, no less. Back on planet Earth, studies reveal that extending unemployment benefits results in more unemployment.

    Jobs   Compassion   Names  
  • Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

    John Foster Dulles (1954). “Evolution of Foreign Policy: Text of Speech by John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y., January 12, 1954”
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

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

    Lying   Real   Punishment  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.145, Clap Publishing, LLC.
  • 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.

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

    Jesus   Thinking   Today  
    Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (1929). “The Great Conjecture: Who is this Jesus?”, New York : H. Holt
  • Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

    Law   Abiding   Citizens  
  • If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

  • I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

    Source: myislam.dk
  • Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.

    Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.27, New York Review of Books
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