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Pen sword 

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the pen sword is the mightiest. It can cut a line through paper with a blade of ink as easily as it can cut through flesh with a blade of steel.
"They said the pen was mightier than the sword, but now I give you this, THE PEN SWORD"
"Bro how much weed was in those brownies?"
Pen sword by Seamus Bright September 16, 2022
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sword over pen 

When military aggression is chosen over any form of rational negotiation when dealing with an enemy
While to some history majors the Crusades were an incomprehensible exercise in futility, to others it is a sword over pen solution to our religious differences

the pen is mightier than the sword 

"The pen is mightier than the sword" means a person can cause people to change their opinions(e.g., to fight a war)and on a large scale whereas a sword can only change a peron's opion by force and then often only results in the person's death.
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America considered the pen to be mightier than the sword, and therefore were able to gain the freedom of America by uniting the colonists.

the pen is mightier than the sword 

When it comes to governance of human beings, our thoughts, our thinking outweigh violence.
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword." Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword 

An idiom that means; those who control information have far more power than those with military force. It is actually a fallacy - Patton himself proved this. The idiom assumes the people are smart to begin with, an assumption that has been proven wrong countless times in history. And whoever said that has obviously never encountered automatic weapons anyway.
Somebody thinking he's smart: I control information! I control the people! The pen is mightier than the sword!

A realist: I control the weapons! Might makes right!

the pen is mightier than the sword 

it means the pen is a better weapon than the sword because its smaller and more manueverable. also you can fill the ink tube with poison and stab someone with it for example, in the neck. its better for sneaking up on someone, or for use in small spaces.
you got a sword? so what i got a pen. yeah u better run u woman.

The pen is mightier than the sword! 

The pen is mightier than the sword!
Words hurt more than that stabbing feeling your getting through that sword someone is stabbing you with.
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