Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
BOB BROWNYet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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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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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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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 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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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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.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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