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said are by this generous U2 singer. In a long list of quotes by
famous personalities his inspire and make us all believe that when the
story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we
could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined
Quotes by Bono
"Americans,
Irish people, are
good at charity. We like to give, and we give a lot, even those who
can't afford it. But justice is a higher standard." Bono Quotes
"And this wise man asked me to stop. He said, Stop
asking God to
bless what you're doing. Get involved in what God is doing -- because
it's already blessed." Bono Quotes
"As an artist, I see the poetry of it. It's so brilliant. That this
scale of creation, and the unfathomable universe, should describe
itself in such vulnerability, as a child. That is mind-blowing to me. I
guess that would make me a Christian. Although I don't use the label,
because it is so very hard to live up to. I feel like I'm the worst
example of it, so just kinda keep my mouth shut." Bono Quotes
"At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not
looking for alms, God is looking for action." Bono Quotes
"But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally
be my
judge. I'd be in deep s---. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm
holding out for Grace." Bono Quotes
"But my point is that the world is more malleable than
you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape." Bono Quotes
"But we've got to follow through on our ideals or we
betray
something at the heart of who we are. Outside these gates, and even
within them, the culture of idealism is under siege, beset by
materialism and narcissism and all the other isms" of indifference."
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"But you know what's amazing? Everywhere I go, I see
very much
the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a
world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders.
And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must
join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty." Bono Quotes
"Celebrity is currency, so I wanted to use mine effectively." Bono
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"Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Jesus
says
that [Luke 6:30]. "Righteousness is this: that one should... give away
wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the
needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for the emancipation of the
captives." The Koran says that [2.177]. Thus sayeth the Lord: "Bring
the homeless poor into the house, when you see the naked, cover him,
then your light will break out like the dawn and your recovery will
speedily spring fourth, then your Lord will be your rear guard." The
Jewish Scripture says that. It's Isaiah 58 [verses 7-8] again. It's a
very powerful incentive: "The Lord will watch your back." Sounds like a
good deal to me, especially right now." Bono Quotes
"Eight million people die every year for the price of
going out
with your friends to the movies and buying an ice cream. Literally for
about $30 a head per year, you could save 8 million lives. Isn't that
extraordinary? Preventable disease - not calamity, not famine, nothing
like that. Preventable disease - just for the lack of medicines. That
is cheap, that is a bargain."
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"Even then I prayed more outside of the church than
inside. It
gets back to the songs I was listening to; to me, they were prayers.
How many roads must a man walk down?" That wasn't a rhetorical question
to me. It was addressed to God. It's a question I wanted to know the
answer to, and I'm wondering, who do I ask that to? I'm not gonna ask a
schoolteacher. When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time
in my life/My eyes are wide open" -- these songs have an intimacy for
me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual
intimacy. A spiritual intimacy."
"Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might
not see them, but our children will."
"Every era has its defining struggle and the fate of
Africa is
one of ours. It's not the only one, but in the history books it's
easily going to make the top five, what we did or what we did not do.
It's a proving ground, as I said earlier, for the idea of equality. But
whether it's this or something else, I hope you'll pick a fight and get
in it."
"Fear is the opposite of faith."
"I believe in the kingdom come. Then all the colors will
bleed into one."
"I love this work I do. It's a privilege to serve the
poor,...."
"I was jumping up and down. The president deserves a lot
of
credit for that. He really stuck his neck out. He was right, it's
important the people know at this time what America is for as well as
what America's against. on George Bush's announcement of increased AIDS
funding for Africa."
"If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe
there's a
force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind
the universe. And I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would
choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in straw
poverty"; i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me."
"If I could, you know I would. If I could, I would let
it go.
This desparation, dislocation, separation, condemnation, revelation, in
temptation, isolation, desolation."
"I'm not in a position to be seen as a spokesman for a
generation. I mean, how can you be a spokesman of a generation if
you've nothing to say, other than 'Help!'"
"Imagine if a third of the kids at your local primary
school
were AIDS orphans. That's a reality in Africa where the parents of 13
million children have been killed by AIDS."
"Isn't equality a son of a bitch to follow through on.
Isn't Love thy neighbour" in the global village so inconvenient?"
"It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to
replace it with the truth."
"It's patently clear to anyone living in New York or
London that
whole corners of their cities were about to be taken out, whether with
chemicals or dirty nuclear devices. So I'm not full of criticism for
the way the Americans have behaved. I'm with them."
"Look at what happened in Southeast Asia with the
Tsunami.
150,000 lives lost to the greatest misnomer of all misnomers, mother
nature." Well, in Africa, 150,000 lives are lost every month. A tsunami
every month. And it's a completely avoidable catastrophe."
"My heroes are all alive. I never have worshipped at
that altar of burnt-out youth."
"Sing the melody line you hear in your own head,
remember, you
don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any
explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations. You know
I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited
like an old building that you move into when the previous generation
moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed,
it's fluid. You can build your own building, or hut or condo, whatever."
"So my question I suppose is: What's the big idea?
What's your
big idea? What are you willing to spend your moral capital, your
intellectual capital, your cash, your sweat equity in pursuing outside
of the walls of the University of Pennsylvania?"
"The attention of the world might sometimes be
elsewhere, but
history is watching. It's taking notes. And it's going to hold us to
account, each of us."
"There are many side roads and back streets to rock 'n'
roll, and most of us get lost down them at times."
"There are potentially another 10 Afghanistans in
Africa, and it
is cheaper by a factor of 100 to prevent the fires from happening than
to put them out."
"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to
respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
"We have to have a very simple standard of doing
business, which
is: If you are not tackling corruption, if you are not allowing civil
society to do their job, we are not giving you any money. Outside of
famine, and outside of those kinds of catastrophes, which need money
pumped in no matter who's in charge. We are not marching the streets to
redecorate presidential palaces for anyone."
"We thought that we had the answers, it was the
questions we had wrong."
"Well this is the time for bold measures. This is the country
(America), and you are the generation."
"Well, the going rate for change is not cheap. Big ideas
are expensive."
"We're not here today for a victory lap; we're here to
pick up the pace. Because AIDS is outrunning us."
"When the story of these times gets written, we want it
to say
that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have
imagined."
"When you sing, you make people vulnerable to change in
their
lives. You make yourself vulnerable to change in your life. But in the
end, you've got to become the change you want to see in the world."
"Yes, I sometimes fail, but at least I'm willing to
experiment."
"You have worked your ass off for this. For four years
you've
been buying, trading, and selling, everything you've got in this
marketplace of ideas. The intellectual hustle. Your pockets are full,
even if your parents' are empty, and now you've got to figure out what
to spend it on." Bono Quotes
"You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of
Karma.
You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a
tooth for a tooth, or in physics—in physical laws—every action is met
by an equal or an opposite one. It's clear to me that Karma is at the
very heart of the universe. I'm absolutely sure of it. And yet, along
comes this idea called Grace to upend all that as you reap, so you will
sow" stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you
like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good
news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff." Bono Quotes
Bono was involved in the Band Aid and Live Aid projects
and later helped organize the 2005 Live 8 project.
He has been a leader in the fight against poverty, has
helped to
create the ONE Campaign, DATA, (RED) and EDUN, a clothing company which
is striving to stimulate trade with poverty stricken countries
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