I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWNReal life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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