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Ralph Steadman
British
Cartoonist
About the author
There is no truly global justice.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Justice
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,
British
Cartoonist
#Right
#Being
#Writer
#Artist
I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#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,
British
Cartoonist
#Talk
#Giving
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Running
#Entrepreneurs
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#God
#Mankind
#Silly
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Man
#Evil
#Hate
#Misery
#Revenge
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Reason
#Ugly
#Business
#Deals
You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#People
#Government
#Trust
#Betrayal
I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Wine
We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#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,
British
Cartoonist
#Will
#Sea
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Kids
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Doubt
#Suspicion
#Hatred
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,
British
Cartoonist
#World
#Authority
#Evil
#Rest
#Difference
#Opinion
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#God
#War
#Man
#Idea
#Wage
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Man
#Justice
#Violence
#Name
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Feeling
#Man
#Help
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#World
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Force
Isolationism is over.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
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,
British
Cartoonist
#Will
#Reform
#Nature
#Development
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
Ralph Steadman,
British
Cartoonist
#Power
#Ideas
#Nature