Bono Quotes

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

I'm trying to change the world.

I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.

Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn't get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

All I want to do is change the world.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

Every major social movement in our history was fueled in large part by religion and faith. Abolitionism, women’s suffrage, child labor law, and most famously, civil rights.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.