Quotes by Bob Brown
Bob Brown
Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist
Alive from: 1944-
Category: Politics
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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 William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
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There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
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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 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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