John Lennon

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

— John Lennon

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity.

— John Lennon

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we 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?

— John Lennon

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

— John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

— John Lennon

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

— John Lennon

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

— John Lennon

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

— John Lennon

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

— John Lennon

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

— John Lennon

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

— John Lennon

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

— John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

— John Lennon

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

— John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

— John Lennon

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

— John Lennon

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

— John Lennon

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

— John Lennon

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.

— John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

— John Lennon

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

— John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

— John Lennon

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

— John Lennon

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

— John Lennon

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.

— John Lennon

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

— John Lennon

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

— John Lennon

Woman is the Nigger of the World.

— John Lennon

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

— John Lennon

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy

— John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks that I'm God Almighty.

— John Lennon

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.

— John Lennon

Nutopia has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. Nutopia has no laws other than cosmic. All people of Nutopia are ambassadors of the country. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of Nutopia.

— John Lennon