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.
BOB BROWNWe 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
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I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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I 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.
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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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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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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For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
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