Top Deterrence Quotes
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
Sterling Hayden
So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
Charles Horner
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
John Spratt
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.
Joseph Rotblat
Hannah Arendt 
Ann Coulter 
Joseph Rotblat 
John Hersey 
Herman Kahn 
Sterling Hayden 
Mohamed ElBaradei All Deterrence Quotes
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
Sterling Hayden 
58% of people like this quote
So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.
Mohamed ElBaradei
57% of people like this quote
Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
Charles Horner
54% of people like this quote
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
John Spratt
54% of people like this quote
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
Herman Kahn
50% of people like this quote
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
49% of people like this quote
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Natan Sharansky
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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
48% of people like this quote
Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.
Ann Coulter
48% of people like this quote