Deterrent Quotes

I would like to see invented a substance or a machine with such terrible power of mass destruction that war would thereby be made impossible forever.

If any one is convicted of theft, let his head by shaved …; let melted pitch be poured upon it, and feathers shaken over it, that he may be known … let him be set on shore at the first land to which the ship approaches.

The most expensive deterrent pales in comparison to the least expensive conflict. Deterrence is hard, but war is hell.

As to the thief, male or female cut off his or her hands.

Any punishment can be an effective deterrent only if it is consistently and promptly employed. Capital punishment cannot be administered to meet these conditions.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.

Cut off the hands of thieves. It is an exemplary punishment from Allah.

To be safe, democracy must kill its enemy where it can and when it can. The world must be all democratic or all Prussian.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

There will have been girls my age who stopped playing because of the spiteful things that were said to them.

People resisted having weapons on airplanes, but I oversaw the federal air marshals. It's a deterrent. No one sees that weapon, but they are protected on that airplane, and it's a huge positive impact on safety.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers.

I have protection. I have police protection. I have personal bodyguards. I have three sets of them. But believe me, this is really psychological for the family. If they want to get me, they can get me. And every time that I have been saved, it's been by coincidence.

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.

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.

Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.

There is no deterrent effect whatsoever by the presence of the death penalty.

These people would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.