Bono Quotes

We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.

It's very important when you are young you don't take sides; you look at everything fresh and see, what is the best thing we can do? For ourselves, for the society in which we live, the country in which we live, the world in which we live, what's the best thing we can do?

I'm just one tiny speck on this earth and I am always mindful of the fact that other people have rights and interests.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it...It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.