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“Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later”
― Bono

“In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.”
― Bono

“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals�� could end famine directly, without the need for any kind of political solution or systemic reorganization. It is necessary to act straight away, we were told; politics has to be suspended in the name of ethical immediacy. Bono’s Product Red brand wanted to dispense even with the philanthropic intermediary. ‘Philanthropy is like hippy music, holding hands��, Bono proclaimed. ‘Red is more like punk rock, hip hop, this should feel like hard commerce��. The point was not to offer an alternative to capitalism - on the contrary, Product Red’s ‘punk rock�� or ‘hip hop�� character consisted in its ‘realistic�� acceptance that capitalism is the only game in town. No, the aim was only to ensure that some of the proceeds of particular transactions went to good causes. The fantasy being that western consumerism, far from being intrinsically implicated in systemic global inequalities, could itself solve them. All we have to do is buy the right products.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”
― Bono, U2 by U2

“Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.”
― Bono

“I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.”
― Bono

“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”
― Bono

“The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog.
It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.”
― Bono

“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

“I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes”
― Lewis Black

“Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port. With that rope you can pull yourself closer to God. Songs are my prayers.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Imagine for a moment that 10 million children were going to lose their lives next year due to the earth's overheating. A state of emergency would be declared and you would be reading about little else. Well, next year, more than 10 million children's lives will be lost unnecessarily to extreme poverty and you'll hear very little about it. Nearly half will be on the continent of Africa, where HIV/AIDS is killing teachers faster than you can train them and where you can witness entire villages in which chilren are the parents... Will American Christians stand by as an entire country dies?

--Bono”
― Vernon Brewer, Children of Hope

“People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.”
― Bono, Bono on Bono

“If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing.

The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk, for trust, where falling is not a fireable offense- you know, a safe place to be yourself.

And when you have that sort of structure and environment, and the right people, magic is around the corner.”
― John Doerr, Measure What Matters

“почти всичко може да бъде допълнително опростено.”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking

“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, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Not many musicians can get 10000 people to show up and help pay his back taxes, and when farmers are going broke and transatlantic pipelines need to be stopped and towns are blown up in fertilizer explosions or schools for impaired children need to be built, Willie shows up. Does the show for free. For three hours. Everyone has a good time, and somewhere, Bono squirms just a little bit on that self-righteous cross he's nailed himself to.”
― Rich Hall

“the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“The right to appear ridiculous is something I hold dear”
― U2, U2 - No Line on the Horizon

“Bono is a man after God’s heart. His sense of altruism is like the net �� reticulated and unending. To say he’s kind is to embarrass him and the rest of the world; he is gifted with kindness.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu