Quotes By Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Africa will thrive.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Rock music is niche.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

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.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

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

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.