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> Beneath the rule of men entirely great > The pen is mightier than the sword.
by slowmovintarget 5y ago
> Beneath the rule of men entirely great
> The pen is mightier than the sword.
- oblio 5y agoThat's easy to write when you're not on the wrong end of a Mongolian bow or a T-34 gun barrel.
- kamaal 5y agoUse the pen to design a better sword(missiles, f-35s etc), that's the point, not writing novels and reddit threads with a pen.
- oblio 5y agoYour interpretation doesn't line up with the original quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_sword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_s... The original quote is about persuasion being better than violence.
- kamaal 5y agoYeah, you need to be powerful enough to persuade, thats the point.
- slowmovintarget 5y agoThe point of the original quote was about people with too much control over others already. In which case, a few strokes of a pen could condemn thousands to misery or death. In that sense, there was no need to be aiming a bow at a single individual. The original quote wasn't about speech, it was about excessive control.
- oblio 5y agoWikipedia, at least, doesn't favor your interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_sword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_s... The original quote is about persuasion being better than violence.