People Quotes by John Lennon

Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?

— John Lennon

Imagine all the people living life in peace...

— John Lennon

“imagine a world without people”

— John Lennon

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

— John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

— John Lennon

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

— John Lennon

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

— John Lennon

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.

— John Lennon

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

— John Lennon

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

— John Lennon

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

— John Lennon

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

— John Lennon

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

— John Lennon

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting…

— John Lennon

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono.…

— John Lennon

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget… They invented LSD to control…

— John Lennon

In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong…

— John Lennon

Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their…

— John Lennon

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are…

— John Lennon

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better…

— John Lennon

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received…

— John Lennon

The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people…

— John Lennon

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what…

— John Lennon

People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up…

— John Lennon

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort…

— John Lennon

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through…

— John Lennon

I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort…

— John Lennon

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or…

— John Lennon

I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian…

— John Lennon

And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not…

— John Lennon

Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places…

— John Lennon

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

— John Lennon

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

— John Lennon

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

— John Lennon

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

— John Lennon

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

— John Lennon

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

— John Lennon

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

— John Lennon

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

— John Lennon

I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.

— John Lennon