"In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul."

“You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.”

“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.”

“A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am I going to be embarrassed by this in five years?" It's easier for me to do stark, moody, pretty stuff, and I have all this pop stuff inside me, but it's a lot more dangerous, and pop is just apt to sound contrived and sort of pedestrian if you're not careful.”

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”

Source : Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

“Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

“In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads.”

“The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death .”

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

Source : Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.