Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist. After beginning his career as a stand-up comedian and later becoming an MTV presenter, Brand first achieved renown in 2004 as the host of Big Brother’s Big Mouth. Brand has become known as a public activist and campaigner and has spoken on a wide range of political and cultural issues, including wealth inequality, addiction, corporate capitalism, climate change, and media bias. May his quotes inspire you to live a life of freedom so that you may live your dreams.
1. “How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.” Russell Brand
2. “Question all information when you receive it.” Russell Brand
3. “I’m buying things for people I don’t even know. I’m like Willy Wonka.” Russell Brand
4. “Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.” Russell Brand
5. “People that say the system works, work for the system.” Russell Brand
6. “The right to free speech is important but isn’t as important as ‘we’re all humans beings together, let’s find solutions together’.” Russell Brand
7. “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 interests of powerful business elites that run the world.” Russell Brand
8. “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.” Russell Brand
9. “Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.” Russell Brand
10. “I do a lot of kundalini yoga.” Russell Brand
11. “If we don’t want our young people to tear apart our communities then don’t let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together.” Russell Brand
12. “Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.” Russell Brand
13. “We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day.” Russell Brand
14. “Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.” Russell Brand
15. “Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.” Russell Brand
16. “Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.” Russell Brand
17. “If you’ve got any concern at all about animal welfare, you’ve got to not eat meat.” Russell Brand
18. “What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing, having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.” Russell Brand
19. “If you don’t choose your own heroes, heroes will be chosen for you, and they will not represent values that empower you, they will represent powers that will enslave you.” Russell Brand
20. “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
21. “Sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores, through the ocean that connects you remains.” Russell Brand
22. “As a person, I’m more doubtful, introspective and analytical.” Russell Brand
23. “I know change is possible, I know there is an alternative because I live a completely different life to the one I was born with. I also know that the solution is not fame or money or any transient adornment of the individual. The only revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.” Russell Brand
24. “Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.” Russell Brand
25. “The apathy doesn’t come from us, the people, the apathy comes from the politicians; they are apathetic to our needs. They are only interested in servicing the needs of corporations. The planet is being destroyed, we are creating an underclass, exploiting poor people all over the world, and the genuine legitimate problems of the world are not being addressed by our political parties.” Russell Brand
26. “I’ve always had this impulse to be destructive.” Russell Brand
27. “We all place ourselves in danger to one degree or another when we stand up, but we place our children and grandchildren in even greater danger when we don’t.” Russell Brand
28. “My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.” Russell Brand
29. “As a performer, I’m very, very confident in what I do.” Russell Brand
30. “If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might be because they aren’t looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren’t looking within.” Russell Brand
31. “When I was growing up, I thought I’d be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.” Russell Brand
32. “Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.” Russell Brand
33. “The more that I’ve detached myself from the things that I thought would make me happy like money and fame and other people’s opinions, the more truth is being revealed.” Russell Brand
34. “If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealous;y, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.” Russell Brand
35. “As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion.” Russell Brand
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