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?
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More Bono Quotes
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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.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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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.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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