John Lennon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
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All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
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I just wanted to be a working character actor.
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I was always open to whatever made me feel something, which allowed me to branch off to these other genres comfortably because it was genuinely who I was.
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The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
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Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.
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I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
