OXFORD 9000
📚 proverb • entry_id 36399

the pen is mightier than the sword

Meanings (ES + gloss)
la pluma es más poderosa que la espada
More influence and power can be usurped by writing than by fighting.
If my teachers had not told me that the pen is mightier than the sword, if my parents had not told me that I have to respect books, I would not have developed that respect for know…
If the pen is mightier than the sword in American history, it is more likely the pen of a novelist than the typewriter of a reporter — Harriet Beecher Stowe stimulating antislavery…
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