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.
BOB BROWNAustralia 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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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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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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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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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 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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