“Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-t...” — Rose George Quote

“Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.”

“Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.”

“There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.”

“That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.”

“True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.”

“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'”