"Let me tell you something. Ive had enough of Irish Americans who havent been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home; and the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution! They dont talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. Whats the glory of taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Wheres the glory in that? Wheres the glory of bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old-age-pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day? Wheres the glory in that? To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble of the revolution that the majority of the people in my country dont want. No more! Sing No more! <!-- Variant transcription: Now let me tell you something, Ive had enough of Irish Americans who havent been back to their country, in 20 or 30 odd years, come up to me and talk about the Resistance, the Revolution back home, and the glory of the Revolution, and the glory of dying for the Revolution. Fuck the Revolution! They dont talk about the glory of killing for the Revolution. Whats the glory, in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Wheres the glory in that? Wheres the glory, in bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old age pensioners, the medals taken out and polished up for the day, wheres the glory in that? To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble of the Revolution — that the majority of the people in my country, dont want! Say "no more!" No more! No more! Wipe your tears away!"
Paul David Hewson, known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist. He is a founding member, the lead vocalist, and primary lyricist of the rock band U2. Bono is known for his impassioned vocal style as well as his grandiose songwriting and performance style. His lyrics frequently include social and political themes, and religious imagery inspired by his Christian faith.
"We could defend ourselves. But even though some of us became pretty good at violence ourselves, others didnt. They got the shit kicked out of em. I thought that was kind of normal. I can remember incredible street battles. I remember one madster with an iron bar, just trying to bring it down on my skull as hard as he possibly could, and holding up a dustbin lid, which saved my life. Teenage kids have no sense of mortality — yours or theirs."
"Dont get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited. Id just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a lesson and the only four letter word Im going to use today is P-E-N-N. Come to think of it Bono is a four-letter word. The whole business of obscenity — I dont think theres anything certainly more unseemly than the sight of a rock star in academic robes. Its a bit like when people put their King Charles spaniels in little tartan sweats and hats. Its not natural, and it doesnt make the dog any smarter."
"These goals — clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty — these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World."
"You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world."
"Well, here we are, the Irish in America. The Irish have been coming to America for years, going back to the great famine when the Irish were on the run from starvation and a British Government that couldnt care less. Right up to today, you know, there are more Irish immigrants here in America today than ever — some illegal, some legal. A lot of them are just running from high unemployment, some run from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, from the hatred of the H Blocks, torture. Others from wild acts of terrorism like we had today in a town called Enniskillen, where eleven people lie dead, and many more injured, on a Sunday Bloody Sunday."
"I think that politicians are attracted at first by the celebrity but once they meet him, they find that he is outstandingly capable."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."
"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"
E. E. Cummings"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."
Erich Fromm"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"
"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."