“In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.” WayCommunicationTransformedNew Music Author:Yoko Ono
“All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.” ViolenceRevolution Author:Yoko Ono
“The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.” PeopleIfsProblemRevolution Author:Yoko Ono
“After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.” NeedsShouldDifferentProblemOrderNaturalUnitedViewsEnemyGroupsRevolutionSolutionsShould HaveReformRevolutionarySplitsDialecticsDifferent ViewsSortingSorting Out Author:John Lennon
“Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.” RunningTakenTrainFactoriesStatus Quo Author:John Lennon
“I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsIdeasSeemsRememberReadingIndividualBitsDifficultyCommunistLad Author:John Lennon
“If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.” PeopleIfsMindStatesJobsRevolutionaryBritainState Of MindCleaningBourgeoisieCleaning Up Author:John Lennon
“You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.” PeopleGivingSchoolTogetherBreakStudentsAuthorityHappeningsUniversityLocalsCouncilRepressionGet TogetherReins Author:John Lennon
“The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.” WayImportantTaughtRevolutionMalesSubtleSuperiority Author:John Lennon
“It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.” PeopleKnowsLongShowsCertainActingKnow HowCuttingLong TimeRedAreasTreatsClaimsHotRadicalRealisingShow MeCutting OffRed HotMaleness Author:John Lennon
