Ralph Steadman Quotes
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One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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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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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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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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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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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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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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Isolationism is over.
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Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
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I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.
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There is no truly global justice.
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.