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 BROWNOne-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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 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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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