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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,274 people liked it

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
913 people liked it

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
511 people liked it

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
595 people liked it

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
392 people liked it

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
344 people liked it

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: fighting, hurt, inner, peace, permission, strength, trial
198 people liked it

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
132 people liked it

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: evil, violence
122 people liked it

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
— Mahatma Gandhi

107 people liked it

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
96 people liked it

"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion, truth
61 people liked it

"There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.'"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: peace
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"If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
1,759 people liked it

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women
552 people liked it

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
468 people liked it

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fear, life, love
566 people liked it

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
388 people liked it

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, beatles, love, peace, sixties
240 people liked it

"Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, blindness, ignorance, life
213 people liked it

"For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!"
— John Lennon

tags: applause, beatles, concerts, jewelry, music, stage-patter
128 people liked it

"War is over ... If you want it."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fighting, peace, war
80 people liked it

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
— John Lennon

tags: art, beatles, confidence, ego, music
80 people liked it

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
— John Lennon

75 people liked it

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
— John Lennon

tags: god
58 people liked it

"Whatever gets you through the night"
— John Lennon

tags: acceptance, beatles, perseverance
47 people liked it

"When you're drowning you don't think, "I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me." You just scream."
— John Lennon

tags: humour
47 people liked it

"We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on..."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, moon, stars, sun
43 people liked it

"Give me a break." (Lennon's comment to fundamentalist Christian outrage at his comment that the Beatles were now more popular than Jesus)"
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, anti-christian, beatles, censorship, christ, christianity, jesus
32 people liked it

"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all...till you're so full of fear you can't function at all. A working class hero is something to be."
— John Lennon

tags: age, beatles, bourgeois, fear, time, work
34 people liked it

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
— John Lennon

31 people liked it

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
— John Lennon

29 people liked it

"Women should be obscene and not heard."
— John Lennon

tags: women
22 people liked it

"Give peace a chance."
— John Lennon

tags: peace
34 people liked it

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."
— John Lennon

tags: love
31 people liked it

"Everybody loves you when you re six foot in the ground."
— John Lennon

tags: death, love
30 people liked it

"Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it"
— John Lennon

tags: john, lennon, music
29 people liked it

"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another"
— John Lennon

26 people liked it

"Before Elvis there was nothing."
— John Lennon

tags: elvis
17 people liked it

"Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share."
— John Lennon

15 people liked it

"Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream."
— John Lennon (Imagine)

17 people liked it

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
— John Lennon

tags: ego, god, life, loser
14 people liked it

"It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him."
— John Lennon

14 people liked it

"My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple."
— John Lennon (John Lennon in His Own Words)

12 people liked it

"Ah, people asking questions lost in confusion/ Well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions/ Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind"
— John Lennon

11 people liked it

"There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme."
— John Lennon

tags: life, music
11 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,616 people liked it

"I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence."
— John Lennon

tags: violence
8 people liked it

"They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it."
— John Lennon

7 people liked it

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