John Lennon Quotes
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I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.
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After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.
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Father, you left me, but I never left you.
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I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
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I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
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Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it...
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I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.
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We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
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Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
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What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.
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Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.