Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

I am not the river I am the net.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

A place to live is not a place to stayA place to stay is not a living place

I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.