Ralph Steadman quotes - page 2

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice. (Ralph Steadman)
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred. View quote
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals. View quote
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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. View quote
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Isolationism is over. View quote
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. View quote
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war. View quote
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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. View quote
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. View quote
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. View quote
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. (Ralph Steadman)
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man. View quote
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There is no truly global justice. View quote
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. View quote
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Each boat is worth the price of a new university and they are watched by gin-soaked yachting types, male and female, in captain's hats lounging in deckchairs inside Perspex covered enclosures at the front of yet more expensive, floating country houses representing nothing more than elegantly vulgar expressions of dodgy wealth. The America's Cup. View quote
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Those Fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations. It was a regurgitation, a psycho-artistic vomit - a creative, cathartic cleansing of my inner being. View quote
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Let me say it here and now. For all Hunter's mindless self-indulgence, which is legendary and crude, he always impressed me with his blind, selfless urge to cut out the crony bestiality of modern society and the political economy that scarred the era. View quote
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Hunter Thompson wasn't Joseph Conrad, Jimmy Carter wasn't Harry Trueman. But strangely, Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon. I'm no Pablo Picasso but there's no harm in straining. After all, the charm of any activity is in the trying and so rarely in the finished article. View quote
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You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government. View quote
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other. View quote
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet. (Ralph Steadman)
Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do. View quote
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The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best. View quote
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Americans love DON'T. Thou shalt not. The bedrock of received knowledge - the Ten Commandments. The God fearing pioneers who still had a long way to go. GO! DONT GO! GO. FUCK YOU GOD! We're on our way... View quote
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