Quotes from John Lennon

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

Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.

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 live as one.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

I cannot be what I am not.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

Happiness is inside you, not with another person

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Happiness is a warm gun.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.