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… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all. — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up? — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
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,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
