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.
BOB BROWNExxon, 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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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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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