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“Vital resources of energy and minerals are finite.”

LifeWisdomTruthReflectionEnvironmentalContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthReflectionEconomicsContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsReflectionEconomicsContemplationAttributed No SourceBanking

Author:Gordon Roddick

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

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsReflectionEconomicsContemplationAttributed No SourceSocial Inequality

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“It is a bloody outrage.”

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsReflectionEconomicsContemplationAttributed No SourceSocial Inequality

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsReflectionEconomicsContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsBusinessReflectionEconomicsContemplationAccountabilityAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthHumanityBusinessReflectionEnvironmentalContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthCommunityResponsibilityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthPoliticsLaughterReflectionEconomicsIndiaContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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

LifeWisdomTruthChangeSocietyReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthChangeReflectionProductivityContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthChangeSocietyReflectionFinanceContemplationAttributed No SourceHousing

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthReflectionInvestmentContemplationAttributed No SourceGreen Technology

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomTruthBusinessIntegrityReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopAnita Roddick

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

WisdomBusinessIntegrityEthicsCampaignsAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopAnita RoddickProfits With PrinciplesContemplation Of Nature

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“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.”

LifeWisdomBusinessIntegrityReflectionEthicsAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopProfits With Principles

Author:Gordon Roddick

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

IntuitionReality Of LifeAttributed No SourceAttributed

Author:Ndumiso Shandu

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“I’m completely alone in every sense of the word.”

LifePhilosophyTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“It is equally important to grab and take hold of kindred spirits when you find them. They are few and far between, especially those who devote their lives to following their own scripts.”

LifeWisdomTruthFriendshipIntegrityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“What a fucking tapestry woven by mad and sensitive egos; sometimes, the flatulence of words blows the intention out the window, but it is just a few steps backwards. I get so near to getting into detail about people and things, then like a pinball machine, my thoughts bang off sideways to some other peg and hang there for a nanosecond only to be tossed on somewhere else. Where is that still, quiet place of examination?”

LifeWritingWisdomTruthLiteratureReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Damn it, damn it, damn it. I need people.”

LifeTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“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.”

LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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

LifePhilosophyTruthMoralityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“What if one's view is right or wrong? What is good or bad, and why? Things I must define more clearly – this is something lacking in me.”

LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthMoralityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“I am Gordon Roddick, 23 years of age. Screw behaviour patterns. Serenity. This pen, too. It's no bloody good.”

LifeWritingPhilosophyTruthHumourReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“Forgiveness was never a big part of the deal. Clarity of purpose, great journeys, unequal struggle, dogged persistence, moments of deep despair, mountainous odds stacked against the hero. The glimmer of light, the one true test.”

LifePhilosophyTruthAdventureReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“I had arrived with a thirst for adventure, adventure of any description. I was a stupid 23-year‑old boy looking for trouble. What trouble looked like, I had no idea.”

LifeTruthMemoriesAdventureTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“Be last at everything. Nobody will have any expectations.”

LifePhilosophyTruthHumourReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1965

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1965

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“I saw how much we were subject to other people's expectations in the City – and they weren't the same as ours.”

LifeTruthBusinessIntegrityReflectionEthicsContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopProfits With Principles

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“We felt increasingly trapped by some shareholders' conservatism and narrow outlook.”

LifeTruthBusinessIntegrityReflectionEthicsContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopProfits With Principles

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“The lessons of creeping loss of control made us decide to go private again if possible.”

LifeTruthBusinessIntegrityEthicsContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopProfits With Principles

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Three times, we tried to buy back the business. The difficulty was that financial institutions assumed if we wanted to buy the company back from shareholders, we must have an idea that profits were about to rise considerably.”

WisdomTruthBusinessIntegrityReflectionEthicsContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopProfits With Principles

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“There needs to be some mechanism to give a voice to the general good – especially in the case of the energy giants who have such control over our future.”

WisdomTruthEnergyBusinessIntegrityReflectionEthicsContemplationAttributed No SourceProfits With Principles

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Dreams are nothing if not acted upon and turned into reality. To that, I add, keep control of your dreams because if you hand them over to others, they will not have the same commitment to achieving your reality.”

LifeWisdomTruthResponsibilityDreamsReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“It's about celebrating diversity in all its aspects, human and biological.”

LifeWisdomTruthDiversityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Accept responsibility.”

LifeWisdomTruthResponsibilityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Throughout my life, I have been drawn to outsiders. The ultimate outsiders were the Beat Poets. Read the Beat Poets' work aloud. Their modern equivalent would be rappers.”

WisdomTruthLiteratureFriendshipIntegrityReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceOutsidersBeat Poets

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“The Beat Poets wrote spontaneously, ignoring accepted form in favour of the complex rhythms of everyday speech.”

LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureFriendshipIntegrityContemplationAttributed No SourceOutsidersBeat Poets

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“The heroes (Lucky Jim’s) are so attractive because there is an honesty in the portrayal of a weak, sometimes witty, human being with the ability to laugh – the ones committed to action, the irredeemable, the unchangeable – a youthful obsession of mine.”

LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureReflectionContemplationHeroesAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“My personal heroes are those who live as they shout, as they proclaim, as they are, for sure, with buckets full of insecurity, doubt and quicksands of anxiety. – out there – unafraid – uncopyable – unquenchable – dissatisfied – slightly dangerous – uncontrollable – and always corruptible!”

LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureReflectionContemplationHeroesAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Not afraid of controversy.”

LifeWisdomTruthReflectionBraveryContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Remote from the world's real meanings, can we sit here comfortably?”

LifeTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“I am pretty much anti-everything.”

LifeTruthHumourReflectionActivismContemplationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“I have always been inspired by those who have gone their own way, who have challenged orthodoxy and the status quo and sought to make a difference, right wrongs, and often put up with being unpopular for saying and doing what they think is right.”

LifeTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceOutsiders

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“Real heroes live by a different drumbeat, verging or merging into anarchy. They break the rules and smash moulds. Some of them rampage through life with disrespect for what they leave in their slipstream.”

LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAnarchyHeroesAttributed No SourceOutsiders

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“When is it time to quit moaning and get on with it?”

LifeTruthHumourProcrastinationAttributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick

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“The university of life and meeting people is so important.”

LifePhilosophyTruthReflectionAttributed No SourceGordon Roddick1964Wisdom Contemplation

Author:Gordon Roddick

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