81 Quotes by Phil Ochs

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

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.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

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.

God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people.

Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer.