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 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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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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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