John Lennon Quotes

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

I was trying to disturb the war.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

There is no good war.

In California, 50 women protested the impending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president.

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

We don't want wars even when we win.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.

I think people would be up in arms. I think we would most likely have a similar situation to what happened in the 60s. I don't know if it would be as violent, I think it would be difficult to say that. But I think that, from what I can understand, our nation as a whole is largely against the war as it stands.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think, before it really exploded as a big movement.

If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.