Bono Quotes

We do live, like it or not, in a world that is deeply interdependent. 9-11 proved that even security is something that we cannot achieve by ourselves.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

I know how inter-dependent the world is.

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as war, violence, terrorism, economic disparity, and exploitation.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.