Quotes by Ralph Steadman

• There is no truly global 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.
• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
• 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.
• Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
• You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
• I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
• 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.
• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and 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.
• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
• Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
• It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
• Isolationism is over.
• 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.
• I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.