Bono Quotes

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

We cannot allow events that might divide us in a small way to distract from the common values and the common interests that unite us in big ways.

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

I believe in our power, in our power which will grow, and if it will grow agreement will come.

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

You find a way to work with people you have more in common with.

I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Uniters do win over dividers—eventually.

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Disagreements will always occur between us, but we all approach them wanting the best for each and every one of us, for the whole people.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.