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A pen can bring great peace through the signing of treaties or a pen can bring great death through the signing of executive orders. Through writing you can move someone to tears or to joy. You can create and destroy lives, towns, countries.
Declaration of Independence is a great example
you can only kill one person at a time with a sword. With a pen, you can incite many to take action.
I think it means you are smarter if you "write" instead of "fight". If you "love" instead of "shove." If you are physically violent it gets you nowhere. If you are verbal instead, that is safer.
Sure. An act of violence is transient. That which is written can last eons.
the witing of the constitution did more damage that the sword of that one guy a while back during that one fight. therefore the pen is mightier than the sword
You use this proverb to say that you can solve problems or achieve your purpose better and more effectively through communication with words than by violence with weapons. Edward George Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873), an English novelist, wrote this for the first time in 1839. He wrote, "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword."
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THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD? Here, we are offered the insight that words are superior to action, even deady killers, like swords. Meet Martin Luther's printed words that changed history, and all the king's men were useless. (James Crystal, 12/11/02)
This proverb means words are more powerful and effective than weapons in accomplishing your purpose.
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It means t express your own position in some case honestly and clearly through writing which may target more than going and fight by gun.
This is to be said when you can't face the others because they exceed you in their strength so you go to another way of fighting that is though writing and criticizing them.
You use this proverb to say that you can solve problems or achieve your purpose better and more effectively through communication with words than by violence with weapons.
i'd say that by using a sword, you hurt someone and but the wound will heal. but if you WRITE something about someone, it could hurt them emotionally forever.
the pen is mightier than the sword...
...Philippine's' national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal is a good example...
written laws that put you away for touching me with a sword
and if i write something very hurtfull about you in the newspapers that reach millions of readers which will effect you long after a sword slash would heal.
and the people who wrote the bible are still affecting people today where the people they killed died along time ago
or shake-spear if the bible is too strong for referancing
its like sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me..which of course is the other way around, words are the ones to cause you to get to the point of sticks and stones...
If somebody hurts you with weapon, with pass of time, wound fills up and you may forget the incident; but if somebody hurts you with words (either in writing by pen or while talking by tongue) these words are engraved in your mind for a very long period. This is why said " Pen (or tongue) is mightier (or sharper) than sword"
and lighter than a few rupee.
That sayings are correct that "the pen is mightier than the sward"It means that when you have to write something you cannot use sward you have to use pen or pencil.
By pen and writing you can bring everthing in good shape,but the only kills.Rather it is to say the educated is better than the educated. But it does'nt mean the unducated are not taking wise decision.Mostly the educated,got everthing good .
Through a pen, one can express his feelings which affect lot many people; but the use of a sword would have its effect only on the one on whom its being used.
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