Ralph Steadman Quotes

• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Invented

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Written, Book

• I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artist

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

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Man, Idea

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Governments, Show

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Witness

• Isolationism is over.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Isolationism

• There is no truly global justice.

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  Topics in Justice, Uncategorized

  Tags in Truly

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hunter

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrible, People

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destroying, Motivating

• I’ve done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rolling, Stones

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sea

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Control, Planet

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hindrance

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kids

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Feeling

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Being

• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suspicion, Doubt

Ralph Steadman (24)

Birth:	15th May, 1936
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Cartoonist, Painter

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Ralph Steadman is a British cartoonist best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson

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