Attributed No Source Quotes

“We were not looking for change but the pathway to change.”
― Gordon Roddick

“This condition of human loneliness is temporarily obliterated (erased) in secrets inadmissible.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Anita would never say no to anybody’s dreams.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It was always a question of being present in mind and consciousness – I liked that Anita constantly challenged.”
― Gordon Roddick

“All are equal – what incredible, intelligent bullshit.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We showed that breaking the rules could lift your head above the mist, the fog and clouds of incomprehension. There was sunshine and laughter up there – anything, everything was possible!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Terrible sadness; I have lost two good years of my children. I miss those childish things around the house, tripping up over torn teddies and being unable to find my keys.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Sometimes, silence drops around like an uninvited guest.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Constantly, the thought is, will I be brave enough? So far, I have not risen to that challenge in my personal or public life. I was good enough to give shape but not detail to the opportunity I had in business.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I had big fun and big opportunities; we pulled out the extensions on business and made it do more for life.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We stretched the possibilities to the evident delight of others, who took my similar cries or used the business tool to move to fresh ground that stirred their own passions (or maybe demons), that gave their workforce a feeling of vitality and difference beyond 'let's turn up for next week's pay cheque'.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am proud of many parts of that. Much of it we did because we did not know that it was not part of the programme and that did not matter, but it did matter.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Ken Saro-Wiwa was one of the warmest and most courageous men I know.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Perhaps this is how life translates, and we all bumble through taking opportunistic advantage, passing off the accidental as the creative plan, the deliberate expression of a sometimes ordered intelligence.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The Angola 3: targeted, framed, isolated.”
― Gordon Roddick

“People from all over the world are working together to make the world a better place, now more than ever.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The threat is more important than the actuality.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The objective is not to let the bastards get away with it.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The Angola 3. Another prisoner confessed to the killing, and when Robert and his fellow detainee were questioned and told to shut up. The judge then ordered them to be gagged with duck tape and bound. All this happened in front of a jury who sat there aghast.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Be patient. Don’t be patient.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The Angola 3. Held in Solitary confinement for 40+ years each. The Closed Cell Restriction (CCR) block, where Herman and Albert were imprisioned, housed solitary cases on two tiers, with around 13 cells per tier. The cells were no more than nine by six feet, and prisoners were confined 23 hours a day, only getting out for a shower or solo exercise in the yard. Imagine, for a minute, being forced to live in your bathroom for the rest of your life.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Frame it up fact by fact. Build it up to show the injustice.”
― Gordon Roddick

“You can’t conquer the world all at once.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Solitary confinement is torture.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Stop playing safe – talk about the issues people do not want to hear or are unaware of.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The Angola 3 had an invincible spirit.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Put people first.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Justice for the Angola 3.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Is it a primitive fundamental reproductive desire, a want to fuck the Earth to become a part of that great reproductive cycle, the mightiest source of sexual power anywhere?”
― Gordon Roddick

“Imagine! I’d dreamed of Colonel Fawcett and the Xavante tribe or the Kayapó – this was like pre-destiny.”
― Gordon Roddick