I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWNWith 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.
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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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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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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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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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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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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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