John Lennon quotes: Do they still hold water in 2012?
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
"The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin."
"The youth have hope because it's their future they're hopeful about and if they're depressed about their own future, well, then we are in a bad state. And we keep hope alive by keeping it alive amongst ourselves."
"It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?"
"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."
"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"
"It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man."
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
"When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun."
There's nothing you can know that isn't known."
"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
"The more I see the less I know for sure."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"A working-class hero is something to be."
"You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one.I hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one."
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