It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
BONOU2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
More Bono Quotes
-
-
The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO -
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
BONO -
The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONO -
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
BONO -
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
BONO -
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
BONO -
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
BONO -
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.
BONO -
The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
BONO -
You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
BONO -
When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
BONO -
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO -
It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
BONO -
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO -
Rock stars are good at making noise.
BONO