John Lennon Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole

  John Lennon

  Attitude, Political Revolution, People

• When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Rocks, Break Through

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

  John Lennon

  Father, Personality, Chinese

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

  John Lennon

  People, Together, Pockets

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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.

  John Lennon

  Order, Should Have, Views

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

  John Lennon

  World, Want, Revolution

  Song: Revolution

• The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

  John Lennon

  Important, Males, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

  John Lennon

  Hands, Numbers, Want

• 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

  John Lennon

  Song, Two, Revolution

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

  John Lennon

  Mistake, Sound, Revolution

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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