439 Quotes by Russell Brand

The very idea that you can somehow make your life alright by attaining primitive material goals – whether it’s getting the ideal relationship, the ideal job, a beautiful Berber rug or forty quids’ worth of smack – the underlying idea, ‘if I could just get X, Y, Z, I would be okay’, is consistent and it is quite wrong.

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

Change is hard, that’s why we can’t do it alone and why it is vital that we have a foundation of hope.

The important prizes can’t be won by individuals, only by us all.

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

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.

As a person I’m a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

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.

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