Martin Firrell

Everything turns only to memory.

— Martin Firrell

Rain has always been connected in my mind with kindness.

— Martin Firrell

You said in that moment on the beach you were entirely happy.

— Martin Firrell

There's an obligation to try every route to happiness.

— Martin Firrell

Every river can be crossed.

— Martin Firrell

A grave and sincere apology to the people of Iraq.

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

Organised religion is something I find hard to follow.

— Martin Firrell

God is a concept.

— Martin Firrell

Not power not cruelty not death not winning not fighting not money not oil not war not sex not tyranny: all tyrants fall.

— Martin Firrell

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

— Martin Firrell

Imagination has not saved us.

— Martin Firrell

How about we have been dead and what we must do after we die? Why we go to the churches when we are living because I think the divines and Christs are dead in the churches and provide the services, cares and merrys on our lived people. And we received the peaceful mind from them and held a better life than before.

— Martin Firrell

Surrounded by army, you think you're going to die. You can't shower because they'll find you nude.

— Martin Firrell

You have to work out how not to die tomorrow.

— Martin Firrell

Power is always temporary.

— Martin Firrell

Security is no replacement for liberty.

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked.

— Martin Firrell

I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.

— Martin Firrell

The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.

— Martin Firrell

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

— Martin Firrell

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

— Martin Firrell

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

— Martin Firrell

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

— 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

Everyone is as confused as I am.

— Martin Firrell

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

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

— Martin Firrell

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament

— Martin Firrell

All I need is a hat and a vagina.

— Martin Firrell

Different is not wrong.

— Martin Firrell

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— 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

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

— Martin Firrell

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

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

— Martin Firrell

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

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

— 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

When we speak plainly of death we stand equal to it.

— Martin Firrell

My heart pumping 70 times a minute every minute my whole life. What a task! To reach any age in those terms sounds miraculous!

— Martin Firrell

To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic.

— Martin Firrell

There is nothing beautiful or noble about death or fear.

— 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

There are many ways to be strong.

— Martin Firrell

The other side of reverence is loathing.

— Martin Firrell

Women are much more honourable than men.

— Martin Firrell

The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.

— Martin Firrell

The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.

— Martin Firrell

There’s not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.

— Martin Firrell

Let’s speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.

— Martin Firrell

Look to the day when we can say goodbye to all out heroes because their work is done. Justice is alive, independent, unassailable.

— Martin Firrell

Protest is liberty's ally.

— Martin Firrell

Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.

— Martin Firrell

The purpose of my life is to try out the ideas I have for it.

— Martin Firrell

Feeling is its own law and truth.

— Martin Firrell

Everything is resurrected in memory.

— Martin Firrell