"Pen is mightier than the sword".Please explain this quote?

Coined in the play "Richelieu: Or The Conspiracy"

True, This! —

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,

The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold

The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —

But taking sorcery from the master-hand

To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike

The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —

States can be saved without it!

It refers to legal documents, treaties, and such as things that command the world better than killing people does.

The word "pen" might be seen as an allegory for the will of the person or people. Real change only really occurs with the will to do so. You can force a person or nation to change (sword), but in the end, all that is brought about is resentment, and second they get a chance to, people change back. Look at the Polish people. Look at how many times Poland was invaded through the centuries: the Russians, the Germans. And yet they remained Polish. They maintained their ideals. The idea never died. And when the media broadcast the Solidarity movement, everyone rallied for their cause. This is but one example; I doubt this page would be large enough to show you them all. The pen really IS mightier than the sword.

"Pen is mightier than the sword".Please explain this quote?

~~~ The 'pen', the transformative power of the written word, especially after Gutenberg, has had, and has, major influence on the world. Eg, the internet!!

The 'sword' has certainly had and has it's major influence on the world.

Often, perhaps always, it is the sword that has granted and defended the 'pen', enabling it to wield it's might in the first place? Capisce'?

That's the problem with your 'either/or' questions;

"There is so much more in heaven and hell than is dreamt of in your philosophies, dear Horatio!"

It just means that you can do more with a pen, like signing documents, laws, even the Constitution of a new Nation, big, sweeping things, than with a sword. With a sword you maybe can kill a guy, but with the pen, and all that implies of course, meetings, people working together, etc., you can accomplish much more.

Pen is mightier than the sword. As pen speaks with the help of words. They are very powerful than swords because to compel to do a certain work what you want to do, it can do it in a second or minute or in a certain time. Words can makes you happy, makes you rich, bring fears and tears and also it can makes you poor.

But sword is the weaker one. It only bring tears, fears and nothing more. It only kill people forever from this world. It bring war and nothing more. Words also kill people not forever but it kills people mentally.

So pen with the help of words it can speak as we want according to our wish but sword do not speak as it only brings pain and nothing more.

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I think that quote came from a philosopher or a writer during the times wherein swords and spears are the only weapons and guns are not yet invented. These kind of men fought their government by writing novels,essays poems,etc. denouncing the dictatorship of their leaders. Instead of a bloody revolt,w/c means taking up arms (swords),they choose to convey their grievances w/c in turn influenced the public. Because of what they learned from the writings.the public revolt causing many governments to topple down.

A sword can kill a man at a time or it may develop fear in him to behave in a particular manner but a pen (your thoughtful writing) may kill thousands of men in a fraction of second or may change life of thousands of people. 'Pen' in this quote stands for your thoughts that you can express by making use of a pen while 'sword' symbolizes hatred or fear. Let us take a positive example rather than just going negative:

People killed only one man i.e., Jesus Christ with the help of "Sword" (here I mean hatred) but at the same time we see that the holy Bible has transformed life of thousands of people from worst to better.Holy Bible in itself is a biggest example of this saying.

Pen symbolizes verbal activism while the sword symbolises physical revolution. In mass terms, words can inspire and explain more than brute force.

Rich educated old f*cks signing a piece of paper ordering uneducated f*cks over to another mans country with swords.

pen shows more emotions since you can write whatever you feel like. you can show your love. hatred, sadness and many more. but a sword shoes only hatred. pen describes more emotions then swords.....