It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
Bob GeldofI'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
Bob GeldofWhen Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
Bob GeldofBlair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
Bob GeldofBecause we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'
Bob Geldof