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• The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Fall, Punishment, Ignorant

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• If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call.

  John C. McAdams

  Risk, Facts, Death Penalty

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

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, People, Weapons

  "Shimon Peres: what you need to know about Israel's outgoing president" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2014.

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Recovery, Presidential, Prosperity

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.43, Best Books on

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

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Sports, Kids

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• 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.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, War, Enemy

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• You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, Jail, People

  "Justice Department's New Get-Tough Policy Is, Well, Not". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 20, 2013.

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

  Steven Levitt

  Olive Branches, Information, Olives

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!

  Helen Fisher

  Kissing, Men, Touching

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• 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?

  Ayn Rand

  Reading, People, Library

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.138, Penguin

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• 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?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Sorry, Facts, Enjoy

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

  David Mitchell

  Country, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.340, Vintage

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

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Murder, Knows

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

  Rick Perry

  Law, Abiding, Citizens

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