Ben Carson Quotes

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Nothing can justify war.

Morality is contraband in war.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

I think war should be illegal.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

It is very difficult to do one's duty. I was considered a barbarian because at the storming of the Praga, 7,000 people were killed. Europe says that I am a monster. I myself have read this in the papers, but I would have liked to talk to people about this and ask them: is it not better to finish a war with the death of 7,000 people rather than to drag it on and kill 100,000.

We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations—acting individually or in concert—will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

What is more immoral than war?

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

War is failure of diplomacy.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.