John Lennon Quotes

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

We are here to make another world.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.

Change will always be violent.

So moderates of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our pessimism. Either we make the future bury the past, or the bad guys will ensure that the past buries the future.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it turns out to be not what they meant, other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

Only force would produce social change.

We can either grow together or grow apart. At the moment we are growing apart.

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

Gentlemen, since the settlement of that Constitution, now nearly two centuries ago, England has never experienced a revolution, though there is no country in which there has been so continuous and such considerable change. How is this? Because the wisdom of your forefathers placed the prize of supreme power without the sphere of human passions. Whatever the struggle of parties, whatever the strife of factions, whatever the excitement and exaltation of the public mind, there has always been something in this country round which all classes and parties could rally, representing the majesty of the law, the administration of justice, and involving, at the same time, the security for every man's rights and the fountain of honor.

In politics, as in every other department of life, the clashing of thought is sometimes a proof of disease, but always a promise of reform.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals, so as I looked out I thought: "Thank God, that this nation has had the courage to face the need of changes before we reached the point where bloodshed was the only way to achieve a change.

We are sons of the Mexican Revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking, bread and justice. Our revolution will not be armed, but we want the existing social order to dissolve, we want a new social order.