Chief Joseph Quotes

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

One should not maintain a dispute.

When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

War is what happens when language fails.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.