Quote by John Lennon
My role in society, or any artists or poets role, is to try and ex

My role in society, or any artists or poets 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

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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crows nest of that ship. – John Lennon

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When youre thirty-five, you cant take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it… – John Lennon

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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 Ill say it. – John Lennon

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. – Yoko Ono

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Society

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. – Carl Sandburg

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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. – Jack Kemp

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No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. – Hermann Keyserling

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything. – John Bacon

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How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? – Author Unknown

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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. – Thomas Adams

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