Martin Firrell Quotes

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

Different is not wrong.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Women are much more honourable than men.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Everyone is as confused as I am.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.