Deterrent Quotes

Deterrent Quote of the day

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.

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

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.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

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.

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

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

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons.

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

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?

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

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

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

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

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

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.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

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.

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.