Martin Firrell Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Security is no replacement for liberty. — Martin Firrell

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

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

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

Women are much more honourable than men. — Martin Firrell

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat! — Martin Firrell

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament — Martin Firrell

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

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

The other side of reverence is loathing. — Martin Firrell

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

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

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

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

Different is not wrong. — Martin Firrell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone is as confused as I am. — Martin Firrell