Martin Firrell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#Said #Quentin

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

#Stupid

“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Century #21st Century #Conscience

“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

#Thinking #Artist #Way

“Everyone is as confused as I am.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Confused

“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

#Responsibility #Accepting #Existence

“Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!”
-- Martin Firrell

#Defeat #Mediocre #Collapse

“Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Art #Soul #Fart

“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Faults

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

#Art #Real #Challenges

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

#War #Mean #Talking

“The other side of reverence is loathing.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Sides #Loathing #Reverence

“Women are much more honourable than men.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Men

“There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Hero #Relate

“Security is no replacement for liberty.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Liberty #Replacements #Security

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

#Way #World #Desperate

“If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Moral #Obedience #Duty

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

#Cities #Want #Immigration

“The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Sunflower

“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

#War #Giving #One Day

“Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Fall #Body

“Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Lying #Infidelity #Failing

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

#Running #Fool #World

“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

#Running #War #Men

“Revolutions have always started in cafés.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Revolution

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

#Cities #Police #Want

“Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?”
-- Martin Firrell

#Art #World #Settling

“Ageing is a privilege not a predicament”
-- Martin Firrell

#Privilege #Predicaments #Ageing

“Different is not wrong.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Different

“Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.”
-- Martin Firrell

#Writing #Add #Conscience