Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
BOB BROWNI have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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