Bono Quotes

Strikingly, only once does Jesus speak about judgment, and when he does, it’s about how we treat the poor: And they too will reply, “Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?” Then the King will answer, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.” And yet for some reason even now people of faith think that what’s going on in their — or other people’s — pants is more important to God than, say, what’s happening to the homeless. The lives of the poorest people are at the heart of Christianity, but sometimes religion seems to be what happens when Jesus, like Elvis, has left the building. It becomes a bless me club for the Holy Rollers and navel gazers.

Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we came But you I’m sure I’ve met Long before the night the stars went out We’re meeting up again.

I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone
And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

You belong only to the here and now. This is no Oceanus of faceless faces; you are trying to make eye contact with everyone. But you can’t … until you can. If you get it right, you’ve not just eyeballed everybody in the front row; you’ve eyeballed everybody in the venue. And there’s no one who doesn’t think you might follow them home, that you might pick their pocket or preach them your gospel or make out with them. Or their sister. Contact has been made, real and imagined.

With crowds I was cocky, too comfortable in the big picture. Wide-screen. I knew I could love at scale, but could I survive the intimacy of the close-up?

To “treat others as you treat yourself” is a bit of a pothole on the road to financial or even cultural dominance.

the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power.

It’s important people don’t forget that the revolution in Russia began with the most noble ideals; my grandfather believed in those ideals.

The neo-Nazi expects to be met with violence on the street; this is the language of their mollified machismo, the sex appeal, especially for young men. Mockery can be a delightfully dangerous weapon. Dada unzips the fascist male and pulls down his combat pants, exposing him to ridicule.

Un trabajo es un sitio donde haces algo que, en el fondo, no te gusta durante unas ocho horas al día cinco o seis días a la semana a cambio de dinero que te permita hacer el fin de semana las cosas que te gustaría hacer todo el tiempo.

Just being yourself, being who you are and what you are is successful rebellion.

Yeats got it. O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I like my heroes to be alive,” she told me. “I like them to grow old.

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