“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
“Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment.”
Source: The Mouse that Roared, p. 5.
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Leonard Wibberley3
Irish-American author 1915–1983Related quotes
“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
“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.
Marty Feldman (1934–1982) British actor and comedian
Kenneth Williams Acid Drops (London: Orion, [1980] 1999) p. xvi.
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“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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Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014