Quotes by Ralph Steadman

About Ralph Steadman:

Ralph Steadman is a British artist best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

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

Ralph Steadman

There is no truly global justice.

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

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

Ralph Steadman

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

Ralph Steadman

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

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

Ralph Steadman

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

Ralph Steadman

Author Bio

  • NameRalph Steadman
  • DescriptionBritish cartoonist
  • BornMay 15, 1936
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionCaricaturist; Author; Illustrator