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1.
The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.
Martin Firrell

The path to liberation is lined with blossoms of joy.
2.
If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.
Martin Firrell

3.
When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.
Martin Firrell

4.
Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.
Martin Firrell

5.
Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.
Martin Firrell

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6.
I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
Martin Firrell

7.
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
Martin Firrell

8.
Different is not wrong.
Martin Firrell

Quote Topics by Martin Firrell: Art Cities War Want World Running Men Thinking Real Way Revolution People Stupid Our Time Cruelty Accepting Writing Moral Responsibility Different Replacements Quentin Soul 21st Century Liberty Sunflower Humanity Collapse Reverence Defeat
9.
Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.
Martin Firrell

10.
If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.
Martin Firrell

11.
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.
Martin Firrell

12.
I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.
Martin Firrell

13.
I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.
Martin Firrell

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The other side of reverence is loathing.
Martin Firrell

15.
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.
Martin Firrell

16.
Security is no replacement for liberty.
Martin Firrell

17.
This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
Martin Firrell

18.
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.
Martin Firrell

19.
Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.
Martin Firrell

20.
There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.
Martin Firrell

21.
Revolutions have always started in cafés.
Martin Firrell

22.
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.
Martin Firrell

23.
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Martin Firrell

24.
Women are much more honourable than men.
Martin Firrell

25.
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.
Martin Firrell

26.
I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.
Martin Firrell

27.
I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.
Martin Firrell

28.
It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
Martin Firrell

29.
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
Martin Firrell

30.
Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.
Martin Firrell

31.
Everyone is as confused as I am.
Martin Firrell

32.
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.
Martin Firrell

33.
I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.
Martin Firrell

34.
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.
Martin Firrell

35.
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
Martin Firrell

36.
I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven't had at least that, what have you had?
Martin Firrell