John Lennon Quote

“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

Source/Notes:
Interview, September 1980

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“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
―John Maynard Keynes

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: "Christianity and human relations in industry" (1951) by Sir George Schuster, p. 109

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“Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.”
―T. S. Eliot

Source/Notes:
The Cocktail Party (1949)

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“Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.”
―Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes:
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798), Chapter I

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“The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
―Henry Ward Beecher

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“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
―Epictetus

Source/Notes:
Discourses, Book I, ch. 24

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John Lennon

Born: October 9, 1940

Died: December 8, 1980 (aged 40)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Musician, artist, writer

Bio: John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.