Hér eru nokkrar tilvitjanir í John Lennon

“You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story . That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.”

“You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.”

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

“I think the basic thing nobody asks is why do people takes drugs of any sort? And that question has to be resolved before you can think, well, what can we do for the poor drug addict? Why do we have to 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?”

“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.”

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”

“I always was a rebel…but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted…and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.”

“Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.”

“If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was ‘Learn to swim. And once you’ve learned - swim!”

“When I was a Beatle I thought we were the best fucking group in the goddamn world, and believing that is what made us what we were.”

“Everything is clearer when you're in love”

“We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?”

“You have to be a bastard to make it and The Beatles were the biggest bastards in the world!”

“When I was 12, I used to think I was a genius and nobody had noticed. If there such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't, then I don't care.”

“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”

“I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.”

If a revolution destroyes a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.