The pen is mightier than the sword

Cultural  

1. Human history is influenced more by the written word than by warfare.

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The pen is mightier than the sword

DeTroy likened the accusations as an indiscriminate Scud missile attack that rewrote the adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword."

From US News ● Jul. 23, 2015

I have discovered the absolute truth of an adage that I had never before truly taken to heart: "The pen is mightier than the sword."

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2012

This fact partly verifies the old saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword."

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

Edward Bulwer-Lytton gave us the slogan "The pen is mightier than the sword."

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

When I write anything I want it to be real and connected in form, as, for instance, in your quotation from Lord Lytton's play of "Richelieu," "The pen is mightier than the sword."

From A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by John Louis Haney

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