#deterrence

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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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

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

— Sterling Hayden

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

— Ann Coulter

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