Top 280 Russell Brand Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.”

— Russell Brand

2. “The Holy Spirit ain’t got a pen.”

— Russell Brand

3. “I’m not better than you; I’m just different than you in a way that’s better.”

— Russell Brand

4. “Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.”

— Russell Brand

5. “Drugs and alcohol are not my problem – reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.”

— Russell Brand

6. “When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m starting to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.”

— Russell Brand

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7. “The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.”

— Russell Brand

8. “How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.”

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9. “Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that’s not on the ballot.”

— Russell Brand

10. “Whatever I endure in recovery, I need never again suffer the indignity of active addiction. The despair and hopelessness. The inexhaustible cycle of incremental self-immolation. I am reminded of how far I’ve come, of the miracle that, with help and humility, I can, one day at a time, live free from drugs and alcohol.”

— Russell Brand

11. “I say us – obviously I don’t vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people but the interest of powerful business elites that run the world.”

— Russell Brand

12. “Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.”

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13. “See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.”

— Russell Brand

14. “Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”

— Russell Brand

15. “Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.”

— Russell Brand

16. “Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.”

— Russell Brand

17. “I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.”

— Russell Brand

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18. “What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.”

— Russell Brand

19. “People who say the system works work for the system.”

— Russell Brand

20. “As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion.”

— Russell Brand

21. “You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.”

— Russell Brand

22. “Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone...”

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23. “I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.”

— Russell Brand

24. “Society is collapsing, and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.”

— Russell Brand

25. “If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren’t looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren’t looking within.”

— Russell Brand

26. “If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you’re thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.”

— Russell Brand

27. “When you fall in love you recognise you’re not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.”

— Russell Brand

28. “For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it’s enough that there are trees in the world.”

— Russell Brand

29. “It’s difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.”

— Russell Brand

30. “The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. – Slavoj Zizek.”

— Russell Brand

31. “Consumerism and materialism are creating a culture of addiction. We are all on the scale somewhere because we are kept there by the age we live in.”

— Russell Brand

32. “We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”

— Russell Brand

33. “My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”

— Russell Brand

34. “Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.”

— Russell Brand

35. “Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.”

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36. “The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.”

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37. “Kundalini yoga is the crack cocaine of yoga.”

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38. “I don’t see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.”

— Russell Brand

39. “All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God.”

— Russell Brand

40. “I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.”

— Russell Brand

41. “I didn’t cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.”

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42. “On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.”

— Russell Brand

43. “And while we’re on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, ‘The Ugly Duckling’ ought be banned as the central character wasn’t a duckling or he wouldn’t have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.”

— Russell Brand

44. “Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.”

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45. “Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?”

— Russell Brand

46. “How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they’ve got a boyfriend?”

— Russell Brand

47. “All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we’re likely to get for the futility of racism.”

— Russell Brand

48. “Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur – let’s not use it just to mend the toaster.”

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49. “I like threesomes with two women, not because I’m a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I’m a romantic. I’m looking for “The One.” And I’ll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time.”

— Russell Brand

50. “Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.”

— Russell Brand

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