Skip to content

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)

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Martin Firrell

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

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

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

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

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

All Martin Firrell quotes →

You may also like

Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Firrell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.