John Lennon

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people sharing all the world.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

Happiness is a warm gun.

Before Elvis, there was nothing.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Declare it. Just declare it. No guns. No war. No machines. No nothing. Just declare it. And then see what happens. We've been declaring war all our lives. So why don't we declare peace?

We've got to work to make it work.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Muhammad and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's only man's interpretations of it that are wrong.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

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

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

I'm a working-class hero.

Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head.

The dream is over.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I don't believe in Beatles.

I don't believe in Jesus. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in Kennedy. I don't believe in Buddha. I don't believe in mantra. I don't believe in Gita. I don't believe in yoga. I don't believe in kings. I don't believe in Elvis. I don't believe in Zimmerman. I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me, Yoko and me. And that's reality.