Benjamin Carson Quotes

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

Benjamin Carson

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Government
  • Conflict

• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Think
  • Eyes

• Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Men
  • War
  • Nature

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • God
  • May
  • War

• Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • War
  • Death

• Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • War
  • Peace
  • Act

• When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • War
  • Education
  • Simple

• Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • War
  • Support
  • Resolution

• War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • War
  • Psychology

• As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Black

• I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

  

  Katherine Langford

• Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

  

  Mary Roach
  • People

• Nicola had to move closer to Marcus, had to take his hands in hers and hold them over her heart as though she could give hers up for his if it meant she could take away all of the pain he'd had to deal with at such a terribly young age.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Move
  • Heart
  • Deal

• I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • War
  • Ukraine