Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. Bono More Quotes by Bono More Quotes From Bono Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner. Bono motivationinspirationpeople Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be. Bono smackcentrecontradiction 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. Bono gone-awayproblemthinking It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain. Bono painrealjustice When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. Bono oiltwoschool Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back. Bono nervousbelieverwatches We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back. Bono soulorderbelieve At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that. Bono annoyingheartphilosophy 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. Bono movierunningchildren It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it. Bono rocksstarsculture 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. Bono wake-upnoblemorning You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS. Bono aidsvictimwatches I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them. Bono dividesissuespeople U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali. Bono ethiopiaaidswife Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding. Bono corporationsunderstandingthinking Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit. Bono homeworkdefenseworld U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help. Bono writinghelpingsong I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star. Bono rockscatholicstars I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono firechristianthinking But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America. Bono resistanceamericapeople
