Quotes By Bono

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

I'm never nervous.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Africa will thrive.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.