John Lennon Quote

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono (ed. Putnam Pub Group, 1981)