America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.
--Phil Ochs
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
--Phil Ochs
Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.
--Phil Ochs
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
--Phil Ochs
Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.
--Phil Ochs
God isn't dead- he's just missing in action.
--Phil Ochs
In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.
--Phil Ochs
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
--Phil Ochs
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
--Phil Ochs
It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.
--Phil Ochs
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
--Phil Ochs
So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.
--Phil Ochs
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
--Phil Ochs
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
--Phil Ochs
The truest protest is beauty.
--Phil Ochs
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