Peter Tosh Quotes

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.

Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.

Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

How old is the sun? Sun not temporary, not chronological. There is the terra-celestial and the celestial. I am celestial, mon. I am here, there and everywhere. I live among men so I must adjust myself. When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too, mon.

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.