Bono Quotes

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a c...

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. A...

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because...

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...

Christians are hard to tolerate I don’t know how Jesus does it

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the reh...

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

I am a Christian - but sometimes I feel very removed from Christianity. The Jesus Christ that I beli...

You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back ...

The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even gre...

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in th...

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus tho...

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy tha...

David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power...

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more ser...

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megaloman...

On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be ca...

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live,...

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo...

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out wit...

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life forc...

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in cha...

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces ...

The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace....

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoug...

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North s...

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can...

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm ...

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things...

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dar...

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. T...

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You kn...

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of spec...

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneur...

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. O...

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap ...

Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderm...

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people a...

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if...

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

Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When pe...

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was m...

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, ...

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny ...

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mo...