Quotes by Bob Brown

About Bob Brown:

Robert James "Bob" Brown is an Australian former politician, medical doctor, environmentalist, former Senator and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election. He was re-elected in 2001 and in 2007. He was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia, and the first openly gay leader of an Australian political party.
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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.

Bob Brown

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...

Bob Brown

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Bob Brown

The future will either be green or not at all.

Bob Brown

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

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Brown

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 Brown

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.

Bob Brown

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.'

Bob Brown

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

Bob Brown

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Bob Brown

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Bob Brown

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.

Bob Brown

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Bob Brown

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Bob Brown

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.

Bob Brown

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Bob Brown

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.

Bob Brown

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

Bob Brown

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.

Bob Brown

Author Bio

  • NameBob Brown
  • DescriptionAustralian Greens politician, medical doctor, environmentalist
  • BornDecember 27, 1944
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionPolitician; Physician
  • AwardsGoldman Environmental Prize