You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONOI have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
More Bono Quotes
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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