“If we’re being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.”
Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist
Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).
“We’re too stupid to decide on EU (that includes me)”
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