Chief Joseph Quotes

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

I've never been in a street fight.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.