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 Copy Share Image
New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let… — John Lennon Copy Share Image