Petra Kelly
Petra Kelly
Petra Karin Kellywas a German Green politician and activist. She was instrumental in founding the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and worldwide...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 November 1947
CountryGermany
add faced faces generation next shall solemn
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'
spiritual heart order
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.
determination mean self
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth...
generations next faces
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
support expansion limitless
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.
struggle simple land
We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.
names discovery receiving
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.
motto gentle subversive
Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'
army tickets males
I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.
loyalty government states
... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.