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To be one, to be united is a great thing.
by Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Unity Open Diversity Tolerance

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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

You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

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

There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

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

As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

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

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono

One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie