Barack Obama Quotes

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.

We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

The whole world is my family.

I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I think we do, as we have an obligation to help everyone within our own borders. The problem is that this automatically gets translated into: "What's the point of having a huge military if we can't bomb people?" That's the problem that I have. Our foreign policy is essentially our defense policy.

The world has changed. India cannot sit isolated in one corner and determine its future.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.