I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of working for a company that values community and purpose over mere profit.
Anita Roddick expresses a desire to engage with a company that has a strong commitment to its community, highlighting the need for employees to find meaning and belief in their work. This sentiment reflects the growing importance of corporate social responsibility and suggests that individuals seek more than just financial stability; they yearn for a workplace that aligns with their values and contributes positively to society.
In practice
Used in a job interview to express the desire for a value-driven workplace.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of Β£300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
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