Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

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• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Parents
  • Understanding
  • Religion

• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Long
  • Religious

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Religion
  • Understand

• No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Religion
  • Others
  • Promotion

• From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Christian
  • Religion

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Humanity
  • Religion
  • Christ

• If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Worry
  • Potential

• It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

  

  Bono U2
  • Religion
  • Human Heart
  • Justify