Top 100 Brand Russell Quotes

#1. 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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#2. I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.

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#3. Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

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#4. Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

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#5. Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

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#6. I deplore those long brown curly fingernail folk. I don't even especially like people who have one long thumbnail for guitar. My mate Karl has one, and it scratched me the other day. I was sickened.

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#7. I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.

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#8. We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

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#9. The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

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#10. On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

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#13. Now, I don't want to come over all cynical, but doesn't that imply that you could dispense with the entire democratic process and simply award power to the party with the most money in its campaign fund? Yes. It does. Maybe not always, just every, single time in history so far.

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#14. I am a Russell Brand fan. I'm one of the few people who think he did a cracker-jack job in 'Arthur.'

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#15. I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

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

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#17. People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

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#18. 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.

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#19. If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

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#20. Consciousness does affect matter.

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#21. There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.

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#22. 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 ...

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#23. I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!

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#24. All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

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#25. Maybe a life of devotion doesn't need to be robes and chanting; maybe it's just going through life with open eyes and an open mind, looking out for chances to help people and buzz on the altruistic zip it gives, like coins in Mario Land.

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#26. Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

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#27. Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours through a telescope advance towards you, fist extended with the intention of punching you in the face. Even though I saw it coming it still hurt when it eventually hit me.

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#28. Individualism. Campbell said, "All religions are true in that the metaphor is true." I think this means that religions are meant to be literary maps, not literal doctrines, a signpost to the unknowable, a hymn to the inconceivable. Edward Slingerland is a professor

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#29. The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

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#30. Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

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#31. For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

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#32. People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

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#33. As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

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#34. We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

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#35. When people are content they are difficult to manoeuvre. We are perennially discontent and offered placebos as remedies.

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#36. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.

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#37. We are imprisoned within, hypnotized without, denying ourselves access to the internal peace and external harmony. Can we execute the perfect jailbreak when we have become our own jailers?

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#38. I was like Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley on Ed Sullivan, I tells ya, punished for the crime of being sexy. (him on the telly , me in a dingy alley ... any analogy will break down under scrutiny.)

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.'

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#41. Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown.

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

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#43. Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

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#44. Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

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#45. I'll not be changing, but America will.

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#46. And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

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#47. I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.

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#48. When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

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#49. Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

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#50. Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

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#51. When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

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#52. 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.

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#53. It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

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#54. To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

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#55. You can't absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.

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#56. I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

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#57. The only meaningful interpretation of any religious teaching is to honor the divine within ourselves and love the divine in one another.

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#58. The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.

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#59. The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

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#60. America employs more private security guards than high school teachers.

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#61. I used to believe in the system that I was born into: aspire, acquire, consume, get famous and glamorous, get high and mighty, get paid and laid.

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#62. I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.

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#63. Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq - that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

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#64. I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.

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#65. I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

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#66. In the U.S., the 400 richest people have as much as 185 million people, over 60 percent of the population. As absurd as that is, on a global scale, the richest 85 people have as much as 3.5 billion people, half of humanity!

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#67. There's no biological reason why a man shouldn't just try to have sex with every woman he meets - all of them get pregnant and your genetics are winning.

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#68. This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink ... mug of water.

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#69. I say us - 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 interest of powerful business elites that run the world.

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

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#71. Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.

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#72. 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.

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#73. If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

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#74. Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

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#75. Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

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#76. Rituals are missing nowadays

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#77. The economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real-that's why it's got the word "con" in the middle of it.

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#78. If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.

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#79. The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

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#80. It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.

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#81. Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?

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#82. We must spontaneously cooperate; we must immediately overcome our superficial differences of accent and lexicon and come together to organize society effectively. ========== Revolution (Russell Brand)

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

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#84. I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.

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#85. Beyond the limited realm of the senses, the shallow pool of the known, is a great untamable ocean, and we don't have a fucking clue what goes on in there.

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#86. If you don't choose heroes, heroes will be chosen for you, and they will not represent values that empower you, they will represent powers that will enslave you

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

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#88. 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.

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#89. If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.

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#90. Be the change you wish to see in the world," said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence to achieve it. He also said, "In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.

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#91. That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.

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#92. The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

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#93. In the United States, 95 per cent of income gains since the recession began have gone to the top 0.01 per cent.

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#94. Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

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#95. I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

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#96. Well this all seems like a bit of a storm in a teacup!

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#97. Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.

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#98. It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

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#99. Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

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#100. 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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