Quotes by Ben Carson

Ben Carson

Ben Carson

American politician, and author

Lived from: 1951 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 september 1951

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  • The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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  • The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
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  • The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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  • There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
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  • There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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  • There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
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  • There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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  • There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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  • Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
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  • Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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  • We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
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  • We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
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  • We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
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  • We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
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  • We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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  • Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.
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  • Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
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  • What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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  • What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
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  • What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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