“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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“There is more done with pens than with swords.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
This is very similar in theme to "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu
Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)
“A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?”
James Joyce book Finnegans Wake
Page 306
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Context: A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.
“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”
Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
“My pen in this, my sword in that hand hold.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Numa mão sempre a espada, e noutra a pena.
Stanza 79, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VII