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

Bono

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
BONO

Music Positive Song
Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
BONO

Helping Jesus World
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.
BONO

Concerts Country Debt World
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

Commodities Oil School Two
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
BONO

Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONO

Kings Real Thinking
The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONO

Ghetto Rocks Self
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
BONO

Art Must Understand
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
BONO

Despair Enemy Poverty
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
BONO

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

Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
BONO

Ideas might Tiny
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BONO

Home People World
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
BONO

Artist Cracks Thinking
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.
BONO

Justice Pain Real

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