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

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

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

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

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

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

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


 

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

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

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

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

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

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi

Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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