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 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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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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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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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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