John Lennon Quotes

War would end if the dead could return.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

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

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

People always make war when they say they love peace.