Barack Obama Quotes

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

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

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper and safe judges of whether a war ought to be commenced, continued or concluded.

I am against war, and because I am against war I went to war to fight against war.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Morality is contraband in war.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

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

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

We must take the profit out of war.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

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.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

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.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.