#in

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist. ↗

— Bono

#become #being #brother #church #conscience

From caring comes courage. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#caring #comes

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. ↗

— Bono

#allowed #anywhere #because #commitment #concern

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. ↗

— Bono

#across #awe #christ #combination #cross

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

— Bono

#end #in the end #kills #off #stasis

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this. ↗

— Bono

#africa #continent #disease #extreme #extreme poverty

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. ↗

— Bono

#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#country #disgrace #fame #fearing #general

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. ↗

— Bono

#colours #emotional #feelings #occupy #original

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. ↗

— Bono

#actually #away #because #enough #forgotten