I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
BONOPoverty 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?
More Bono Quotes
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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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.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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