You know, we’re really destroying ourselves because we’re really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

About Ralph Steadman

Ralph Idris Steadmanis a British illustrator best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his satirical political cartoons, social caricatures, and picture books.

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Man’s idea of God, and a God’s collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

You see that’s what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

There is no truly global justice.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

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

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can’t help feeling the guy’s a good man.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

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

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

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

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

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

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

I’ve done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

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

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

Isolationism is over.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

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