With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the disparity in resource allocation, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing humanitarian aid over warfare.
Bob Brown's quote reflects on the massive financial expenditures on war, suggesting that the same resources could instead be utilized to address critical global issues such as hunger, clean water, and education for children. It encourages a reevaluation of how priorities are set by nations, advocating for a shift towards compassionate action that directly benefits vulnerable populations.
In practice
This quote can be used during a charity event to emphasize the importance of redirecting funds to aid.
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.
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.
The future will either be green or not at all.
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.
To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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