Bob Brown Quotes

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• I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
• I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
• I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
• The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
• There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
• 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.
• Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
• The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.
• 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…
• 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…
• Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
• I am an optimist.

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