Bono słynne cytaty
„Europa potrzebuje więcej takich krajów jak Polska.”
słowa podczas koncertu U2 w Chorzowie 6 sierpnia 2009.
„Nie zależy nam na waszych pieniądzach – zależy nam na waszym głosie.”
zachęta do przyłączenia się do akcji ONE Campaign.
Źródło: U2 Vertigo Tour – Live From Chicago
Bono Cytaty o ludziach
o wrażeniach z podróży do Etiopii.
o konfliktach w Irlandii Północnej.
Bono cytaty
Źródło: Bono przed amerykańskim Senatem. Mówił o Polsce i „hipernacjonalizmie” http://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-ze-swiata,2/bono-przed-amerykanskim-senatem-o-polsce-i-wegrach,636446.html, tvn24.pl, 17 kwietnia 2016.
„Nareszcie jesteś wolny! Odebrali ci życie, ale nie zdołali zabrać twej dumy!”
Źródło: piosenka Pride – In the name of love
„Tym małym afrykańskim krajem rządzi przeklęta trójca: zadłużenie, AIDS i handel.”
o Lesotho.
Źródło: „Polityka”, 2006
„To noc, która nigdy nie zostanie zapomniana.”
podczas wykonywania utworu One w Chorzowie.
Źródło: Bono z U2: naszym polskim braciom i siostrom odbierana jest wolność https://web.archive.org/web/20170818061913/http://muzyka.onet.pl/rock/bono-z-u2-naszym-polskim-braciom-i-siostrom-odbierana-jest-wolnosc/j6mjz0, onet.pl, 31 lipca 2017
Bono: Cytaty po angielsku
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
Kontekst: I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world. In 2001, only seven percent of evangelicals polled felt it incumbent upon themselves to respond to the AIDS emergency. This appalled me. I asked for meetings with as many church leaders as would have them with me. I used my background in the Scriptures to speak to them about the so-called leprosy of our age and how I felt Christ would respond to it. And they had better get to it quickly, or they would be very much on the other side of what God was doing in the world.
Amazingly, they did respond. I couldn't believe it. It almost ruined it for me — 'cause I love giving out about the church and Christianity. But they actually came through: Jesse Helms, you know, publicly repents for the way he thinks about AIDS.
I've started to see this community as a real resource in America. I have described them as "narrow-minded idealists." If you can widen the aperture of that idealism, these people want to change the world. They want their lives to have meaning.
PENN Address (2004)
Kontekst: Every era has its defining struggle and the fate of Africa is one of ours. It's not the only one, but in the history books it's easily going to make the top five, what we did or what we did not do. It's a proving ground, as I said earlier, for the idea of equality. But whether it's this or something else, I hope you'll pick a fight and get in it. Get your boots dirty, get rough, steel your courage with a final drink there at Smoky Joe's, one last primal scream and go.
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
Kontekst: Ireland has a very different attitude to success than a lot of places, certainly than over here in the United States. In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. It's a different mind-set.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
Kontekst: So now — cut to 1980. Irish rock group, who've been through the fire of a certain kind of revival, a Christian-type revival, go to America. Turn on the TV the night you arrive, and there's all these people talking from the Scriptures. But they're quite obviously raving lunatics.
Suddenly you go, what's this? And you change the channel. There's another one. You change the channel, and there's another secondhand-car salesman. You think, oh, my God. But their words sound so similar... to the words out of our mouths.
So what happens? You learn to shut up. You say, whoa, what's this going on? You go oddly still and quiet. If you talk like this around here, people will think you're one of those. And you realize that these are the traders — as in t-r-a-d-e-r-s — in the temple.
PENN Address (2004)
Kontekst: This is the straight truth, the righteous truth. It's not a theory, it's a fact. The fact is that this generation — yours, my generation — that can look at the poverty, we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly. We can be the first generation. It might take a while, but we can be that generation that says no to stupid poverty. It's a fact, the economists confirm it. It's an expensive fact but, cheaper than say the Marshall Plan that saved Europe from communism and fascism. And cheaper I would argue than fighting wave after wave of terrorism's new recruits.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Kontekst: One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.
For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what religious people, in the name of God, did to my native land... and in this country, seeing God's second-hand car salesmen on the cable TV channels, offering indulgences for cash... in fact, all over the world, seeing the self-righteousness roll down like a mighty stream from certain corners of the religious establishment...
I must confess, I changed the channel. I wanted my MTV.
Even though I was a believer.
Perhaps because I was a believer.
“I wait, without you
With or without you, with or without you.”
"With or Without You"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Kontekst: I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait, without you
With or without you, with or without you.
PENN Address (2004)
Kontekst: America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, lets take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Kontekst: A number of years ago, I met a wise man who changed my life. In countless ways, large and small, I was always seeking the Lord's blessing. I was saying, you know, I have a new song, look after it... I have a family, please look after them... I have this crazy idea...
And this wise man said: stop.
He said, stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing — because it's already blessed.
PENN Address (2004)
Źródło: U2 By U2
“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”
Źródło: Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
“Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.”
"Crumbs from Your Table"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
“See them burning crosses, see the flames get higher and higher”
"Bullet The Blue Sky"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)