Russell Brand Quotes

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

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

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

I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

People who say the system works work for the system.

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.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'

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

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.

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

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

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.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

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.

Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy.

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

What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

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.