Quotes with deter

  • 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.

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  • Ann Coulter Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Col. Harland Sanders I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
    Col. Harland Sanders
    American businessman, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) (1890 - 1980)
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  • Cass Sunstein If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carrie P. Meek Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Bernard Levin No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Barbara Deming 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
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • John Foster Dulles Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bob Filner Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • C. Robert Kehler Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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  • Abraham Lincoln The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Antonio Guterres We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.
    Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis is 'Lagging Far Behind.' (2015)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Scott While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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