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Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

John Lennon
War, Mind, And Love

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

John Lennon
Inspirational, Motivational, War

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

John Lennon
Real, War, Sacrifice

We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.

John Lennon
Love, Peace, War
"The David Frost Show" Interview, June 14, 1969.

We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

John Lennon
War, Thinking, America
Source: www.counterpunch.org

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

John Lennon
Life, War, Making Love
Song: Mind Games

When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.

John Lennon
War, Bed, Use
John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

John Lennon
Horse, Sex, War
Source: www.counterpunch.org

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

John Lennon
Dream, War, Twilight
John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

John Lennon
Inspirational, War, Guitar
"The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" by The Beatles, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969.

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