You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
John LennonWhat Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?
John LennonI've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.
John LennonSometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.
John Lennon