John Lennon Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

• Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Motivational

• 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?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

• Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

  John Lennon

  Dream, War, Twilight

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

• I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

  John Lennon

  Life, War, Making Love

  Song: Mind Games

• We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.

  John Lennon

  Love, Peace, War

  "The David Frost Show" Interview, June 14, 1969.

• I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

  John Lennon

  Real, War, Sacrifice

• Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

  John Lennon

  Horse, Sex, War

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, War, Guitar

  "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" by The Beatles, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969.

• Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

  John Lennon

  War, Mind, And Love

• There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, War

• We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

  John Lennon

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.

  John Lennon

  War, Bed, Use

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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