I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWNThe Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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 comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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 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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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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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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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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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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