Martin Firrell Quotes
born 1963
Martin Firrell (born 4 April 1963) has been described as a cultural activist, a campaigner and benign propagandist, placing text in public space to promote debate and positive social change.
62 quotes
I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.
Let’s speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.
Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.
Rain has always been connected in my mind with kindness.
There's an obligation to try every route to happiness.
To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic.
I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.
This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.
The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.
The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.
A grave and sincere apology to the people of Iraq.
I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.
I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked.
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.
Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.
The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Firrell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.