Martin Firrell: Trending quotes

“Revolutions have always started in cafés.”

Martin Firrell

quoted in The Independent on Sunday (18 April 2004).

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

Martin Firrell

Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).

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

Martin Firrell

Quoted in The Guardian (25 February 2006).

World , Fools , Intelligence

“Women are much more honourable than men.”

Martin Firrell

quoting April Ashley
"Complete Hero" (2009)

Women , Men

“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

Quoted as work in progress at martinfirrell.com.

War , World , Peace , Despair

“Power is always temporary.”

Martin Firrell

"Six Women" (2007)

“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

"Complete Hero" (2009)

Justice

“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 Question Mark Inside" (2008)

Death , Money , War , Sex

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

Martin Firrell

quoting Shazia Mirza
"Complete Hero" (2009)

“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

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

Life , People , Peace , Thinking

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

Martin Firrell

quoting A C Grayling
"Complete Hero" (2009)

War , Failure

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

Martin Firrell

"Complete Hero" (2009)

World , Justice

“Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.”

Martin Firrell

"1968-2008" (2008)

“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..." (2006)
Variant: I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.

People

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

Martin Firrell

Quoted at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts website (December 2009).

“Everything turns only to memory.”

Martin Firrell

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

Memory

“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..." (2006)

“Security is no replacement for liberty.”

Martin Firrell

"Keep the Faith" (2006)

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

Martin Firrell

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

Happiness

“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

In response to the London bombings of 7 July 2005, quoted in the International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).

Art