Bob Geldof Quotes

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

The Nazi’s radical anti-Semitism was an attempt to guarantee the complicity of the broadest possible swath of the populace in Nazi crimes. With their hands dripping with blood, most Germans would likely see no real choice but to fight to the death against the allies.

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent.

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

Good people do bad things.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

We lie to ourselves and try to escape that bitter reality by saying that the world is divided into good guys and bad guys, and that we're the good guys. We condemn people as evil to reassure us that we're not like them. If there's to be any hope of preventing these things from happening again, we have to look at the reality. That any act of evil in our history was committed by human beings like us. That, very often, we're all implicated in it.

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.

If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.