“Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.”

“Love the life you live, live the life you love.”

“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; live for others, and you will live again.”

“If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.”

“I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.”

“I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.”

“Have no fear for atomic energy, ’cause none of them can stop the time.”

“Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.”

“Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.”

“Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”—I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin’ (1973)

“Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.”

“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

“Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.”

“As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.”

“All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they’re here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb… herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can’t find no reason.” “All them say is, ‘it make you rebel’. Against what?”

“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”

“In this great future, you can’t forget your past.” —No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)

“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”

“When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.”

“I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.”

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.” – Bob Marley

“The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.” – C.S. Lewis

“There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice.”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”