For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. 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.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?