Attributed No Source Quotes

“When you are lucky enough to have grandchildren, nothing is more important than love and laughter.”
― Gordon Roddick

“There was no reason
Why I was sitting there
Poised firmly on the edge
Of a visible silence
A terrible leashed quiet as though
The dogs of hell had rushed by
Five jaw-snapping minutes earlier
Dragging this concert of silence behind them
Tied to their tails by
An eternal (endless) string.
I, there, sitting
Poised firmly on the edge
And wondering why there was no hope.
But no one told me
Ever ...”
― Gordon Roddick

“I loved her because she made me laugh every single day. I loved her determination to be a maverick and her ceaseless caring for the underdog”
― Gordon Roddick

“Nudging into the final corridor of a life lived loudly – the final phase will be no less loud.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Important – it is not exclusive and looked at as not something theoretical but as a genuine preparation for what is coming down the line.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Planet Earth is very nearly a busted flush and
our leaders have yet to notice that the world has changed forever. We
can’t carry on operating under the same old system.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Vital resources of energy and minerals are finite.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Surely growth is the problem and not the solution? Growth is mostly about buying things we don’t really need to impress people we don’t really like.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The government seems powerless to think creatively, beholden to too many influences, excluding, of course, the electorate.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Witness the government's inability to control the banking system or the continuing spree of vast bonus payments with little justification or scrutiny.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It appears to me, and I hope to you too, that it's the wrong people feeling the pain.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It is a bloody outrage.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Our generation (yes-us-we here in this room) has created a world of unprecedented affluence and scientific progress, educated and civilised our kids only to bequeath them a planet that is overheated, under water, uninhabitable, a poisoned planet.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We need to change the rules of accountability so big business can become the major contributing factor in our salvation.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Imagine for a minute a world where business, as its first objective, had to serve the good of humanity! Or energy companies might acknowledge that what they extracted from the Earth should serve all humankind.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We need to drop the blame game and come up with some answers.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We can no longer look to others to supply our needs. We must take on that responsibility individually and collectively and find strength within our own community.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Let’s laugh a little too. It can have a powerful effect, as proved in a very effective demonstration in Karnataka, India, in 1994, where the people simply stood outside the parliament building until they laughed the parliament right out of office.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It is pretty clear that society needs reshaping, and quickly.”
― Gordon Roddick

“A well-balanced society must put people before the headlong rush for profit. Much research shows the increased productivity and happiness of people working fewer hours each week.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Decoupling the housing market from speculation and setting up a separate financing model would be needed. The current out-of-date corporate model needs attention.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Investment in green technology is to be welcomed, but is it enough? It is not just about changing technologies. That has to go hand in hand with changing the way we live and work.”
― Gordon Roddick

“In business, we need to find a better way, but I know from bitter personal experience that when Anita and I decided to turn The Body Shop into a public company, we lost control to conservative institutions that cared little for its future. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“We developed ethical innovations such as community trade, which involved sharing the profits from some products with the communities that produced them and running many challenging campaigns.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The moment I realised that we had made a mistake in taking The Body Shop public was about eight years after we did so. It was also the moment I felt I grew up. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“Take note of signs from the universe, and never forget to trust your intuition.”
― Ndumiso Shandu

“I’m completely alone in every sense of the word. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Damn it, damn it, damn it. I need people. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“You can't fight the whole human race simply because you see your thoughts and actions and your potential thoughts and actions mirrored within them, so live with them. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Crap. Before one starts this fighting, one has to sort a few things out, such as one's bloody morality. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965