Sword Is Mightier Than Pen Quotes

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

The pen is mightier than the sword... an considerably easier to write with. - Marty Feldman

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!

The pen is mightier than the sword!

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.

If the pen really is mightier than the sword then you guys better watch out, because I wrote my whole 700,000 w0rd trilogy in longhand!

The pen is mightier than the sword… if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.

Anyone who says the pen is mightier than the sword has never come face-to-face with a gun.

We who hold the pen... and like bricks we use our words... how stupid of us... how naive... to even think for a second... that the pen was ever mightier than the sword.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you know where to poke it.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!

The pen had been mightier than the sword but then the tongue took over.

Quimby was eventually killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword,” and in his memory it was amended to include the phrase “only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.

The pen is mightier than the sword; it should never run out of ink.

Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all.

The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but the wordsmith would do well to welcome the blacksmith back into the fold, so that artisan craftsmanship the world over may fend off the ravages of industrialised homogeneity and bland monoculture.

Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are all told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose.

Pen isn’t mightier than the sword. Pens don’t win battles, and swords don’t write poetry. But mighty is the hand that knows when to pick the pen & when to pick the sword.

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.

Yeah the pen is mightier than the sword, but the keyboard kicks the pen's ass!

Is the pen really mightier than the sword? I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is, and the strength of the warrior wielding it.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the laptop? A light saber or a life saver?

Yea” might be turned into “Nay” and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied to the matter. The second was that in any argument, the victor is always right, and the third that though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment. - Roger Fenwick, Duke of Grand Fenwick

The owner of The Mandrake Hotel and Resort is a man called Rot, a billionaire like Bill Gates, only nerdier. 
 Rot Kugelschreiber isn’t the name he was born with. No, the name on his birth certificate is Dark Jar Tin Zoo. He chose that penname because in German it means Red Pen—and a Red Pen is mightier than a Red Sword, which in turn is mightier than a Rothschild. 
 Most of the time he goes by Rot, but occasionally he reverts back to Dark Jar Tin Zoo.

True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! — itself is nothing! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword — States can be saved without it!

Each and every one of us has moments like these, times when a book becomes more than a book. It is a touchstone and the stories between the pages are reflections of us. They remind us of who we were, who we are now and how we got there. The next time you have a bout of nostalgia, I encourage you not to pull out the old photo album. Head to your bookshelf instead, and see what surfaces. I guarantee it will be more than you think. The pen is mightier than a lot of things. The sword was just the first one down.

The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press was heavier that the siege weapon.

See, this is proof that the pen is mightier than the sword.” I replied, “Especially when your pen is writing about my sword.” We

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but it’s probably not going to end well for you if you bring one to a gunfight.

Some say that "the pen is mightier than the sword.” I say “the keyboard is your machine gun.

The pen is mightier than the sword. A hug is more powerful than both. Apply love.

The pen is mightier than the sword! In human affairs, the truth is hard to find, which is why that expression is true. We couldn't topple [the late] Rudolf the Great wit ha sword, but we can expose his crimes against human society. That is the power of the pen. The pen can impeach the dictator of a hundred years ago or the tyrant of a thousand years ago.

It turns out that skin isn't the only thing that sags with age; our linguistic elasticity takes a serious hit as well. Perhaps even more surprising, the more educated and financially well off we are, the greater our linguistic rigidity. And it is the very fact that we think of ourselves as serving some kind of role model that gives rise to our linguistic curmudgeon-ness. Much of our problem with language is that we have come to understand it from a singular point of view, the one provided by that ubiquitous red pen in English class. But if the pen is really mightier than the sword, how come every generation brings with it new forms and features that seem to cut down the ones that came before?

Only in America do we ask our writers to believe they don't matter as a condition of writing. It is time to end this. Much of my time as a student was spent doubting the importance of my work, doubting the power it had to reach anyone or do anything of significance. I was already tired o hearing about how the pen was mightier than the sword by the time I was studying writing. Swords, it seemed to me, won all the time. By the time I found that Auden quote -- "poetry makes nothing happen" -- I was more than ready to believe what I thought he was saying. But books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic. My mother's most common childhood memory of me is of standing next to me trying to be heard over the voice of the page. I didn't really commit to writing until I understood that it meant making that happen for someone else. And in order to do that, I had to commit the chaos inside of me to an intricate order, an articulate complexity. To write is to tell a ticket to escape, not from the truth, but into it. My job is to make something happen in a space barely larger than the span of your hand, behind your eyes, distilled out of all that I have carried, from friends, teachers, people met on planes, people I have only seen in my mind, all my mother and father ever did, every favorite book, until it meets and distills from you, the reader, something out of the everything it finds in you. All of this meets along the edge of a sentence like this on, as if the sentence is a fence, with you on one side and me on the other. When the writing works best, I feel like I could poke one of these words out of place and find the writer's eye there, looking through to me. If you don't know what I mean, what I mean is this: when I speak of walking through a snowstorm, you remember a night from your childhood full of snow, or from last winter, say, driving home at night, surprised by a storm. When I speak of my dead friends and poetry, you may remember your own dead friends, or if none of your friends are dead, you may imagine how it might feel to have them die. You may think of your poems, or poems you've seen or heard. You may remember you don't like poetry. Something new is made from my memories and yours as you read this. It is not my memory, not yours, and it is born and walks the bridges and roads of your mind, as long as it can. After it has left mine. All my life I've been told this isn't important, that it doesn't matter, that it could never matter. And yet I think it does. I think it is the real reason the people who would take everything from us say this. I think it's the same reason that when fascists come to power, writers are among the first to go to jail. And that is the point of writing.

If any of them give you trouble,” Ethan said to West as the three of them walked out to the front drive where the family carriage awaited, “use this.” He handed him the Bull Dog pocket revolver. “It’s a double-action model. You only need to cock the hammer once, and it will fire a round with every pull of the trigger.” West regarded the gun dubiously. “If any of those louts give me trouble, I have a shed full of farming implements to use on them. You’ll need this if you’re planning to confront Jenkyn.” “We’ll be armed with something far more powerful than bullets,” Garrett told him. West looked at Ethan with mock alarm. “You’re taking the spoon?” Reluctant amusement tugged at the corner of Ethan’s lips. “No. Dr. Gibson means we’ll be armed with words.” “Words,” West repeated doubtfully, pocketing the revolver. “I’ve always been skeptical when people say ‘The pen is mightier than the sword.’ It’s only true if the pen is glued to the handle of a German steel cutlass.” “The words will be printed in a newspaper,” Garrett said. “We’re going to the Times office.” “Oh. That’s fine, then. The Times is mightier than the pen, the sword, and Her Majesty’s entire Royal Army.

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the keyboard never runs out of ink.

The pen is mightier than the sword” only if the brain behind it knows how to wield the word!’ Tony Buzan

The pen has always been mightier than the sword but sadly in today's journalism the ink is sponsored.

I've always been sceptical when people say 'The pen is mightier than the sword.' It's only true if the pen is glued to the handle of a German steel cutlass.

The history of the human race demonstrates very convincingly that free speech is the exception to the human condition, not the rule. For millennia, those who spoke out were imprisoned or killed. Hell, you could say something that wasn't even subversive, just inept and stupid, and be destroyed for committing the crime of lese majeste. Make no mistake. What we have today is a level of freedom and self-determination on a scale unparalleled in the history of our species. We live in what is, in many ways, a golden age. So much so that we give tremendous credit to the adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword." But everyone always forgets the first half of that quote: "Under the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword." I'm not sure I know of anyplace that's ruled by anyone "entirely great." That adage wasn't a statement of philosophy, as it was originally used: it was a statement of irony. Don't believe me? Look around. Notice that everywhere you go in the world, whoever happens to be ruling seems to have a great many swords.

I’m going to hope that most of my battles are won through the whole ‘Pen is mightier than the sword’ philosophy, but I’ll keep that in mind.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Where a Westener might say “The pen is mightier than the sword”, the Japanese would say “Bunbu Itchi”, or “Pen and sword in accord”.

The pen is mightier than the sword! In human affairs, the truth is hard to find, which is why that expression is true. We couldn't topple [the late] Rudolf the Great with a sword, but we can expose his crimes against human society. That is the power of the pen. The pen can impeach the dictator of a hundred years ago or the tyrant of a thousand years ago.

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It is asserted that more steel is used in the manufacture of pens than in all the swords and guns in the world. This fact partly verifies the old saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword.

You must have heard the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. Well, its usage has vanished from popular literature in recent years. What has taken its place is the comparison of the pen to a gun. This reflects, I hypothesize, the growing awareness that the act of writing kills quickly and from a great distance. Literature murders—not the reader, as one might expect, but the characters, who are no different from real people. Behind every character is a person out in the world whose sanctity is violated in the process of literary transfiguration. Every black letter on a white page is a bullet.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then bureaucracy is a Challenger tank.

The pen IS mightier than the sword. WHY? It can cause swords to break, armor to crack, dragons to die, among other things!

The gun has become more mightier than the pen and the sword.

Words are power. And a few have the ability to end lives. They say the pen is mightier than the sword. This is true, but not in the way in which they think. You, dear reader, if you are skilled enough, can create havoc with your words. You can end relationships. You can create doubt. You can make mortal enemies of friends, and friends of mortal enemies. All you need is the will to do so.

That’s one thing she has to give Kristin and Jonas credit for. They’ve always been supportive of her writing. Fascinated, even. Maybe they’re terrified they’ll appear in one of her books. The pen mightier than the sword and all that. She has been tempted.

Weapons of War Thoughts first. Battles follow. So, is the pen mightier than the sword? Yes, the pen is mightier than the sword... but it's good to have a sword too. Which do you prefer? No matter, learn both.

PROVERB OPPOSITE PROVERB All good things come to those who wait But time and tide wait for no man The pen is mightier than the sword But Actions speak louder than words Wise men think alike Fools seldom differ The best things in life are free There's no such thing as a free lunch

Words, yes, they are but words. I agree, actions do speak louder than words alone. Though, without words, who would take any action? So how can the pen be mightier than the sword. Because you need a pen to sign a peace accord not a sword. You need a pen to write a loved one, when they cannot be near. Words, yes, they are but words.

Here’s a great lie, thinks the Grandee of Jahilia drifting into sleep: the pen is mightier than the sword.

...And reveals, that in Elizabethan politics, the pen was mightier than the sword.

Our weapons are many, and we need them all because patriarchy will not just roll over and die because we will it, pray for it or think positive thoughts. Our books of knowledge are our weapons because knowledge is power. Has not patriarchy tried their best to keep knowledge of Goddess and women’s natural leadership and spiritual authority from us? Intuition is our weapon. Women intuitively know how to birth life, nurture and multi-task. They are the glue keeping homes, businesses, and organizations going. If women stopped serving the status quo, if they stopped volunteering tomorrow, how many would collapse? Our voice is our weapon. Has patriarchy not tried to make us content and satisfied being subservient and our power diminished? We must all find our “sacred rage and our sacred roar” and let our wisdom and intellect reverberate out across the ethers to be heard by all. Our written word is our weapon, for the pen can be mightier than the sword. Each of you sitting here has changed her life not at the point of a dagger but because of the information you have no doubt read or been taught. Our tenacity and strength are our weapons. Any woman who has birthed or raised a child, had a book published, started an organization, manifested a temple – they all know the strength, courage and determination women possess. Remember women, we do 80% of the work around the world even if, under patriarchy, we only earn 20% of the assets. Our weapons are our innate ability to intuit, to love and nurture, to support our sisters, to tend and befriend in times of stress. We must begin to stand shoulder to shoulder, thinking of the Us and We, not the I and Me. Our weapon is the wisdom we embody and the power of the life-affirming Creatrix, while patriarchy is the obsolete and forceful destroyer. We must remember who we are!

Your hair reminds me of a gold pen I had once, and the pen is mightier than the sword, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton is credited with that line about Cardinal Richelieu, so do you mind if I call you Duke?

The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword, having the capacity to change narratives and landscapes. As writers, we have a moral responsibility to leave the world a better place

The pen is not mightier than the sword but perhaps the paintbrush is interchangeable with the blade, and the list of great men who understood this is long.

The power of the written word is grossly exaggerated. The notion that the pen is mightier than the sword is an embellishment of the truth.

The pen may be mightier than the sword in the long term. But the sword could stay sharp for longer than he could keep writing.

Westener might say “The pen is mightier than the sword”, the Japanese would say “Bunbu Itchi”, or “Pen and sword in accord”.

the pen of the faithful is mightier than the sword of the destroyer.

The pen is truly mightier than the sword!

That like the pigs, we all have our heads in the trough. While the hogs don’t believe in God, the American dream, or the pen being mightier than the sword, they do believe in the feed in the same desperate way we believe in the Sunday paper, the Bible, black urban radio, and hot sauce. On

Comedian Marty Feldman adds, “The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, but the Wise Person Carries Both

I’ve heard that the pen is mightier than the sword,” Gilan said. “But I never knew the inkwell could be mightier than the dagger.

He was probably just being paranoid, but why take chances? He quickened his pace, hoping to put a little more distance between himself and his (inadvertent?) tail. A taxi was sounding better and better, but now that he actually wanted one, he looked in vain for an unoccupied cab. Darkened storefronts, guarded by iron bars and pull-down metal shutters, offered little in the way of shelter should he need to get off the street in a hurry. He searched his own pockets for something to defend himself with, just in case, but found only his favorite Sharpie. Great, he thought sarcastically. Whoever said the pen was mightier than the sword had obviously never been stalked down a lonely city street by a guy who looked like he could go nine rounds with Bigfoot. Next time I arrange for an escort home.

The members of the Writers’ Regiment would, of course, like to join the rest of you in dangerous armed combat, but unfortunately the pen is mightier than the sword and we must serve where we are needed.

As 'the pen is mightier than the sword', would an unsuccessful Japanese author commit seppuku with his pen?

If the pen is mightier than the sword, the correct aphorism should be, 'Live by the sword, die by the pen’.

More than anything else, we must understand that our voices have great power. We can use words to build bridges and ships and crews and families, or we can use them to oppress one another, or to rip each other to shreds. Whoever said, "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me," obviously never had a drink with the person who said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." I side with the latter sentiment. Civilizations rise and fall by the written word. The United States certainly rose by these ones: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and if we truly believe the spirit of those words, we as Americans will work together until we have achieved them in their fullness. Use your words to liberate, not subjugate. Do what is right, even when they tell you to "stop." Build a better history for tomorrow, today.

The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved.