Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
BOB BROWNI 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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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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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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 future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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