The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
BOB BROWNThere’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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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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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 will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
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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.
BOB BROWN