Russell Brand Quotes

I don't want to be special.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Banality is sometimes striking.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone