Top 280 Russell Brand Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I’ll not be changing, but America will.”

— Russell Brand

152. “What is a belief really? A thought, in your mind, that you like having. If you like having it, it must be of benefit, it either improves your life or helps you to rationalize how bad your life is. I can’t think of another reason to have a belief.”

— Russell Brand

153. “This manual for Self-Realization comes not from the mountain but from the mud. Being human is a ‘me too’ business. We are all in the mud together.”

— Russell Brand

154. “The happiest moments in our life aren’t “Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble.” But it’s when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.”

— Russell Brand

155. “The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply adapt to living in pain.”

— Russell Brand

156. “We are animals. We are free animals with a divine spark, we’re not in a farm or a zoo or a theme park, we’re free. We’ve forgotten that we’re free...”

— Russell Brand

157. “The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.”

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158. “The nation state is a relatively modern idea, and I don’t think we’re getting a lot out of it except for flags and World Cups.”

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159. “Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.”

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160. “I really craved the company of animals – the wordless simplicity of it. Even now, with my cat Morrissey, I cherish the moments that I’m absolutely alone with him, and the unrecorded tenderness that no one will ever know of – the simplicity of “Oh, I’m just here, with this cat.” I don’t even feed him that much any more, ’cos Lynne, the housekeeper, does that now. But he seems to want something from me that isn’t food, and perhaps that thing is love. My.”

— Russell Brand

161. “I live in negotiation with a shadow side that has to be respected.”

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162. “As a performer, I’m very, very confident in what I do.”

— Russell Brand

163. “We live in a society in which we all, as individuals and as nations, compete for resources. We are told this is nature’s way. My nature cannot long abide it. I become too lonely, locked within my skin.”

— Russell Brand

164. “I learned that I had no need to feel ashamed, that I could make amends for the wrongs I had done, that I could address the fear I had always fled, that I could re-evaluate my feelings of worthlessness.”

— Russell Brand

165. “How does someone who has never been a father become one? How do any of us progress beyond our temporary limits? The potential person we can become hums in an invisible grid within and without us. A genius may actuate by intuition but all of us need heroes, role models, and mentors, that we may see what is possible, living mandalas to lock onto as we inhale and expand into new states.”

— Russell Brand

166. “Managing wildlife? It’s wild! It don’t need managing, leave it alone.”

— Russell Brand

167. “Amy Winehouse – her surname’s beginning to sound like a description of her liver.”

— Russell Brand

168. “Drag your past around if you like, an old dead decaying ox of what you think they might’ve thought, or what might’ve been if you’d done what you ought. That which needs to burn let it burn. If the idea doesn’t serve you, let it go. If it separates you from the moment, from others, from yourself, let it go.”

— Russell Brand

169. “There’s an interconnectivity between what’s in the consciousness of cat and what’s in the consciousness of us.”

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170. “The most potent tool in maintaining the status quo is our belief that change is impossible. “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Winston Churchill quoted this on being informed he’d been voted out of office in spite of Britain’s victory in the Second World War.”

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171. “I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and if you align yourself with this infinite creative force then you can be positive and you can be beautiful, I don’t think its a person or god, I don’t believe in any particular doctrine or dogma, only that humanity is connected.”

— Russell Brand

172. “Yes, people made mistakes but that’s what humans do and I am under no obligation to hoard these errors and allow them to clutter my perception of the present.”

— Russell Brand

173. “That you can never base a relationship on the hope that the other person will some day change. You are in a relationship with the person as they are today. If they want to change themselves then that’s encouraging but you will never change them.”

— Russell Brand

174. “I’ve never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I’ve not been on other drugs as well. It’s just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that’s just life. I don’t think of it as, “Ah, this is mental illness,” more as, “Today, life makes me feel very sad.” I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I’m able to utilize that.”

— Russell Brand

175. “Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.”

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176. “You’re a musician, it is important that you suffer!”

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177. “Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.”

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178. “I believe that what the 12 Steps and their encompassing philosophy, which I will lay out for you in these pages, will provide is nothing less than a solution to the dissatisfaction of living, and dying, to anyone with the balls to do the work. And it is work. Indeed it is a personal rebirth and the journey entails all manner of uncomfortable confrontations with who you truly are.”

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179. “Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I’ve got a blanket over me head.”

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180. “The truth is: there is on this frequency, from our human perspective, a planet, some beings, some resources; would it not be sensible to employ systems that benefit the planet, the beings, and the resources?”

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181. “A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.”

— Russell Brand

182. “Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.”

— Russell Brand

183. “Double-Dip Recession: rich people have taken all the money and are making up excuses for why everyone else ain’t got none.”

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184. “The need to find out what will happen if I don’t relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.”

— Russell Brand

185. “Anything you don’t want discard, anything that hurts let go. None of it’s real you know, all that pain, all that regret, all that doubt, not thin enough, not a good enough mum, not a good enough son, not a good enough bum. You are enough, you’re enough. there’s nothing you can buy or try on that’s going to make you any better, because you couldn’t be any better than you are.”

— Russell Brand

186. “The next industrial revolution is toward decentralized, autonomous, and resilient systems where individuals and communities control their own destinies. This requires a transformation of our economic model from privatized control to co-operative models of ownership, which the social technologies of the Internet can facilitate.”

— Russell Brand

187. “Christ as a reminder that we must all constantly die and be born again, moment to moment, to live forever in the now, if as Wittgenstein says, “eternity is taken not to be an infinite temporal duration but the quality of timelessness, then are we not all eternal if we live in the present.”

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188. “The world is awash with colours unseen and abuzz with unheard frequencies. Undetected and disregarded. The wise have always known that these inaccessible realms, these dimensions that cannot be breached by our beautifully blunt senses, hold the very codes to our existence, the invisible, electromagnetic foundations upon which our gross reality clumsily rests.”

— Russell Brand

189. “Like Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is within,” which seems, once and for all, to bust wide open the daft afterlife view of heaven as some kind of Lando Calrissian cloud kingdom that you can get into like Alton Towers if you acquire enough good-boy tokens.”

— Russell Brand

190. “Don’t make excuses for your behaviour’ and ‘Let them speak’ would’ve made a world of difference.”

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191. “All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.”

— Russell Brand

192. “I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we’re destroying the planet we live on.”

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193. “This is an invitation to change. This is complicated only in that most of us are quite divided, usually part of us wants to change a negative and punishing behaviour, whereas another part wants to hold on to it. For me Recovery is a journey from a lack of awareness to awareness. Let.”

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194. “Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn’t do.”

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195. “You have to forgive everyone for everything. You can’t cling on to any blame that you may be using to make sense of the story of your life.”

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196. “We are living in a zoo, or more accurately a farm, our collective consciousness, our individual consciousness, has been hijacked by a power structure that needs us to remain atomized and disconnected. We want union, we want connection, we need it the way we need other forms of nutrition, and denied it we delve into the lower impulses for sanctuary.”

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197. “Sell me phones and food and prejudice, low cost and low values, low-frequency thinking. We are in a cult by default. We just can’t see it because its boundaries lie beyond our horizons.”

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198. “You’ve seen their logo – it’s an apple with a bite taken out of it. That bite is the symbol of the moment mankind broke their pact with God, transgressed their own innocent nature, and chewed into consuming and consumerism. We have externalized all wonder, materialized our inherent magic.”

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199. “We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regret our imperfection, turning the glossy page, turning our glossy stomachs; we are nature as we hear them witter inanely on the radio, desecrating the silence with the violence of their idiocy and dumb verdicts, chattering and grooming, picking through the ticks in their hair, marveling at new minutia.”

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200. “If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.”

— Russell Brand