Bob Geldof Quotes

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Rock & roll is instant coffee.