Phil Ochs

Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street…

— Phil Ochs

The truest protest is beauty.

— Phil Ochs

She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

— Phil Ochs

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

— Phil Ochs

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

— Phil Ochs

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

— Phil Ochs

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs

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

— Phil Ochs

“Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved…

— Phil Ochs

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a…

— Phil Ochs

And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't…

— Phil Ochs

Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and…

— Phil Ochs

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

— Phil Ochs

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

— Phil Ochs

Here's to the State of Mississippi,

— Phil Ochs

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and…

— Phil Ochs

I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.

— Phil Ochs

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

— Phil Ochs

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

— Phil Ochs

Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal…

— Phil Ochs

The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been…

— Phil Ochs

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

— Phil Ochs

Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

— Phil Ochs

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

— Phil Ochs

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling…

— Phil Ochs