Ralph Steadman Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

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

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

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

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

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.

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.

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.

Isolationism is over.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

There is no truly global justice.

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