John Lennon Quotes

I'm trying to change the world.

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

All I want to do is change the world.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

Every idea is an incitement.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who only have interests.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

I have no doubt in my mind that the new generation has a sense of unity and sensitivity that previous generations lacked. We are strong, and we are visionaries beyond just money.

It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early '80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me - that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.

When we are young, revolution is the most romantic thing.

I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible.