“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.”
“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
“Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?”
“There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life isinherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate mythologies of the human species.”
“We can speak of war as vehemently as some others do, but because we believe otherwise as Muslims, we prefer to speak of peace.”
“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”