Yoko Ono Quotes

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

If we don't blow ourselves up, this is going to be a really wonderful world.

The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.

Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between major powers would be a catastrophe for which there is no compensation in anything you can gain.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.