Is the Pen really mightier than the Sword?

[ArcAngel]

Whoever originally said this must have had a really really good pen......LOL

I'll opt for the sword anyday,,,,
Let me know your opinions on this saying, Just for fun, If you think this thread is stupid, You shouldn't be lookin in the Forum Sysopt Community, cause this is what it's for


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[Warthog]

hmmmmmmmmm...

I'm kinda tired, so I'll respond tomorrow http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[mad hampster]

I believe the expression is symbolic that the power of a journalist is greater then a soldier. I wonder if they came up with it during nam.

[U-96]

Well if I were to write a letter to your local police station, saying that you had threatened to kill someone with a sword, I'd say that my pen would win http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[U-96]

mh: I think it was from the French Revolution, prolly someone like Voltaire http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[[hd580]]

I believe the expression is symbolic that the power of a journalist is greater then a soldier. I wonder if they came up with it during nam.That phrase pre-dates 'nam, hence sword and not semi-automatic. It probably comes from an era when swords (and pens) were in wide use, maybe the kings and castles of (ca.) 13th Century Europe or even back to the Roman Empire. So it's probably more like "the power of a diplomat is greater then a soldier."

[U-96]

Not Voltaire http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif : it seems it is quite popular! I can imagine that the original notion may even have come from a Roman writer like Cicero...


Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'épée (So far had the pen under the king the superiority over the sword).--Saint Simon: Mémoires, vol. iii. p. 517 (1702), ed. 1856.

The pen is mightier than the sword.--Edward Bulwer Lytton: Richelieu (1839), act ii. sc. 2.

Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword. 24
Memb. 4, Subsect. 4. Robert Burton. 1576-1640.

[Variable]

Isn't it from Shakespear??

But it's also from Henry Jones! Father of Indiana Jones!

[ArcAngel]

U-96, that was a funny reply, about the police note, LOL, just wasn't expecting that....thanks for the laugh

[ScaryBinary]

Depends - are we talking a ball-point pen, or a fountain pen. You could really do some damage with those fountain pens.

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[MrMikeL]

Variable,

It was Marcus, the museum curator, who said to Henry Jones Sr. that the pen is mightier than the sword, after Henry disabled a Nazi hoodlum with the ink from his pen.

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