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.
BOB BROWNThe overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
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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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