Ralph Steadman Quotes
"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Artist, Being, Right, Writer)
"I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Eating)
"Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Giving, Talk)
"Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Entrepreneurs, Running)
"God invented mankind because he loved silly stories."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: God, Mankind, Silly)
"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Evil, Hate, Man, Misery, Revenge)
"Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Business, Deals, Reason, Ugly)
"You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Betrayal)
"I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Wine)
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Control)
"I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Sea, Will)
"The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Kids)
"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Doubt, Hatred, Suspicion)
"Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Authority, Difference, Evil, Opinion, Rest, World)
"Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: War, God, Idea, Man, Wage)
"Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Justice, Man, Name, Violence)
"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Feeling, Help, Man)
"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: World)
"I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles."
- Ralph Steadman
"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Force)
"Isolationism is over."
- Ralph Steadman
"You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Nature, Development, Reform, Will)
"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Nature, Power, Ideas)