Martin Firrell: Quotes about war

Martin Firrell is British artist and activist. Explore interesting quotes on war.

Martin Firrell: 132 quotes0 likes

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

Quoted as work in progress at martinfirrell.com.

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

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

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

quoting A C Grayling
"Complete Hero" (2009)

“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’.”

Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).