Bob Marley citations

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“La vérité est que tout le monde va vous faire mal. Vous devez juste trouver ceux pour qui il vaut la peine de souffrir.”

“Qui es-tu pour juger de la vie que je vis ?
Je sais que je ne suis pas parfait
-et je ne vis pas pour l'être-
mais avant de commencer à pointer du doigt …
assures-toi que tes mains sont propres !”

“Mieux vaut mourir en combattant pour la liberté que d'être prisonnier tous les jours de votre vie.”

“Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.”

“the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.”

“Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they just cannot touch us
Through the powers of the Most-High
We keep on surfacin'
Thru the powers of the Most-High
We keep on survivin'.”

“So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.”

“In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend…
I'm gonna be your friend.
In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side…
I'll be by your side.”

“yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music”

“a pot a cook but the food na kno”

“The beauty of love.
The love of beauty.
The greener you are, the wiser you will be.”

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.”

“Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.”

“In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend… I'm gonna be your friend!”

“They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!”

“Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say
No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Little darlin' don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry”

“We JAH people can make it work.”

“And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.”

“Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.”

“Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.”

“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”

“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”

“Your life is worth much more than gold.”

“Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.”

“The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”

“The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.”

“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”

“Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.”

“Keep calm and chive on.”

“Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff)
Good God I gotta' take a lift (lift)
From reality I just can't drift (drift)
That's why I am staying with this riff (riff)

Take it easy, easy skanking
Got to take it easy, easy skanking.”