Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Anita Roddick

British Businesswoman, Human Rights Activist and Environmental Campaigner, Founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company that shaped Ethical Consumerism

"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been in bed with a mosquito."

"Kindness [has the] power to create change, to make things happen. And in a period of human history in which we are obsessed with change - personal or political - and are unsure whether it is possible at all, kindness could be our salvation."

"Let's stop teaching our children to fear change and to protect the status quo. Let's teach them to inquire and to debate, to ask questions until they hear answers. The best way to do that is to change traditional schooling."