“On the lapel [of George’s maroon velvet jacket] was a badge from the New York Workshop Of Non Violence. Their emblem is a yellow submarine with what looked like daffodils spouting from it. ‘Naturally I’m opposed to all forms of war,’ said George seriously. ‘The idea of man killing man is terrible.’” - NME, May 25, 1967
Q: “Would any of you care to comment on any aspect of the war in Vietnam?”
John Lennon: “We don't like it.”
Q: "Could you elaborate any?"
JL: “No. I've elaborated enough, you know. We just don't like it. We don't like war.”
George Harrison: "It's, you know… it's just war is wrong, and it's obvious it's wrong. And that's all that needs to be said about it.” - New York City press conference, August 22, 1966
“We felt obviously that Vietnam was wrong — I think any war is wrong, for that matter — and in some of our lyrics we expressed those feelings and tried to be the counter-culture, to try and wake up as many people as we could to the fact that you don’t have to fight. You can call a halt to war and you can have a laugh and dress up silly and that’s what that period was all about: get your hair long, and grow a mustache, and paint your house psychedelic, and write songs. It was all part of our retaliation against the evil that was taking place and still is taking place.” - George Harrison, It Was Twenty Years Ago Today (1987)
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