"By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded."
Read quote
82 likes
Quote collection
Russell Brand quotes (page 1 of 10)
199 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"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."
Read quote
74 likes
"As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion"
Read quote
66 likes
"You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you."
Read quote
59 likes
"I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down."
Read quote
51 likes
"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."
Read quote
47 likes
"The bad-boy label is just an assumption."
Read quote
39 likes
"The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have."
Read quote
34 likes
"I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people."
Read quote
28 likes
"Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud."
Read quote
26 likes
"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."
Read quote
25 likes
"It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing."
Read quote
24 likes
"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."
Read quote
24 likes
"I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough."
Read quote
23 likes
"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."
Read quote
21 likes
"I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones."
Read quote
20 likes
"I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better."
Read quote
20 likes
"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."
Read quote
18 likes
"The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun."
Read quote
18 likes
"Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love."
Read quote
17 likes