Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties; it doubts our concern, and it questions our commitment. Six and a half thousand Africans are still dying every day of preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity: This is about Justice and Equality.

— Bono

Bono Quotes

When you’re open, a hitchhiker – a “randomer,” as my daughter Eve calls them – can become an angel.

— Bono

Climbing into the ring, the best-prepared fighter is the one who has tried to understand their opponent. Especially if it’s yourself.

— Bono

Wailing, keening, trying to explain the unexplainable. Trying to release himself and anyone who will listen from the prison of a human experience that cannot explain grief.

— Bono

If you’re not at the table you’re on the menu?

— Bono

Well, while I hope God is with those of us who live such comfortable lives, I know God is with the poorest and most vulnerable.

— Bono

Songs are my prayer.

— Bono

There’s stuff you can learn from people who don’t tell you anything.

— Bono

The stuff of the great operas. U2’s music was never really rock ’n’ roll. Under its contemporary skin it’s opera – a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day.

— Bono

We can debate whether information or matter is at the heart of the physical universe, but there is no argument that the essential building block of the rock ‘n’ roll solar system is the van.

— Bono

Doing my homework one day, in the little box room in Cedarwood Road, I looked out the window as Guck Pants went by on a unicycle. Playing the trumpet.

— Bono

I’m not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there’s a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.

— Bono

Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff.

— Bono

I hadn’t done drugs since sniffing Lady Esquire shoe polish when I was fifteen. I didn’t need to. I felt the pinch of wonder.

— Bono

I’m lost, I’ll probably always be lost.

— Bono

I’d given myself a license to look back, to lift up stones under which I knew lay creepy-crawlies.

— Bono

Suicide offers quick authority over a life that feels it has lost all agency.

— Bono

The moment of surrender is the moment you choose to lose control of your life, the split second of powerlessness where you trust that some kind of “higher power” better be in charge, because you certainly aren’t.

— Bono

Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man’s-land is yes-man’s-land.

— Bono

The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground, even with your opponents, especially with your opponents... You don’t have to agree on everything if the one thing you do agree on is important enough.

— Bono

I’m drawn to conversation because in the best kind you don’t know where you’re going, only that you will get somewhere good.

— Bono
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