Top 29 I Prefer Peace Quotes
#1. I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Paine
#2. Your face is the face of all the others
before you and after you
Ingrid Jonker
#3. They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war.
Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly.
Blaise Pascal
#4. He was alive and wished that he was dead, but not being dead, he was scared that he might die.
Avi
#5. It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
Fredrik Bajer
#7. What he had remembered was to tuck among his changes of clothes one of Regan's framed photographs of the four of them from a few summers back, at Lake Winnipesaukee. He set it up on the nightstand, as if he might swim down into the past, where nothing could go wrong.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#8. In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea - and this was before e-mail.
Anne Lamott
#9. The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
John Malkovich
#10. I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.
Aleksandar Hemon
#12. No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
Croesus
#13. I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.
Adriana Lima
#14. The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#16. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities ... it is enough that i am surrounded by beauty.
Everett Ruess
#17. Truly I prefer by far this life of almost constant trial, if I am only able to roll all my cares upon my Heavenly Father, and thus become increasingly acquainted with Him, to a life of outward peace and quietness, without these constant proofs of His faithfulness,
George Muller
#18. Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?
Jean Giraudoux
#19. We can speak of war as vehemently as some others do, but because we believe otherwise as Muslims, we prefer to speak of peace.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#20. I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
Bill Nye
#21. After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
#22. In indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed a time of positive power, rather than evidence of sin and negative power, or as a feminine inconvenience.
Joan Borysenko
#23. We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
John Cage
#24. The true messengers of the Lord are always rejected by the majority of the people, who prefer to listen to the false prophets preach a message of peace and prosperity. Thus it is today as well.
Benjamin Baruch
#26. I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#27. We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
#28. The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life.
Daniel Keys Moran
#29. I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That's not being a warmonger. It's being a realist.
Allen West
