One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

- Phil Ochs

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

- Phil Ochs

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

- 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…

- Phil Ochs

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

- Phil Ochs

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

- 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 …

- Phil Ochs

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

- Phil Ochs

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

- Phil Ochs