Which is mightier?

99 posts1 ... 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Which is mightier?

The pen
211
82%
The sword
45
18%
 
Total votes : 256


User avatar
Gender Female
Points 12621
Reviews 83
You can stab someone with a pen, but you can't write with a sword.
{Insert witty and/or memorable movie quotes here} [Give credit so I don't die by lawyer]

{Follow up with mention of worth-while activity that betters the YWS community}

{Insert link to activity}

{Insert well-humoured internet bribery to entice viewers to join in the activity}




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 805
Reviews 336
That is so unbelievably true.



WAITASECOND. You can write with a pen if you use the blood of the person you just stabbed. But then you'd stab the paper. Nerrmind.
I am nothing
but a mouthful of 'sorry's, half-hearted
apologies that roll of my tongue, smoothquick, like 'r's
or maybe like pocket candy
that's just a bit too sweet.

~*~




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 4870
Reviews 145
The pen. Think about it, there are TONS of written records of history, but not a lot of collections of old swords. Plus, if you want to make a true impact on someone, it would be better to do it with words, than swords.
Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.




User avatar
Gender None specified
Points 974
Reviews 53




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 3682
Reviews 66
The pen, 'coz only it can write vunderful stories. The best that the sword can do is destroy stories out of jealousy.
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world's food and clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history.
- Carl Sandburg, I am the People, the Mob




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 1373
Reviews 59
The sword is the pen, and the pen is the sword. How can I divide the two?
Bad souls have born better sons, better souls born worse ones -St Vincent




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 1040
Reviews 6
The sword can change humankind for an instant. The pen can change humankind for a milennia... x
Never give up on your dreams. Dreams make us passionate and life without passion is pointless. x




User avatar
Gender Male
Points 17581
Reviews 126
The Pen.

Words can impact or hurt someone from far away or close up.
"If the king doesn't lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow?"




User avatar
Gender Male
Points 240
Reviews 0
Sword is mightier than pen, as don quijote sais. I agree.
thanks, music, for being there when nobody else was....




User avatar
Gender Male
Points 25520
Reviews 308
PEN!

Most writers can't use a sword, can't we?
Need some feed? Then read some! Take a look at today's Squills at In the News.

The Tatterdemalion takes a tattle!

"Stories are like yarn; just hold on to the tip and let the ball roll away"




User avatar
Gender None specified
Points 3404
Reviews 37
A pen creates, while a sword destroys.

Well, I guess if you stab someone's eye with a pen then that would kind of hurt... :D
---Shooting Stars
When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you. -Jiminy Cricket

Don't be afraid to jump, to leap, to fly too far and don't be scared to touch the stars!




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 1747
Reviews 135
This question is kind of bias since we're on a writer's site ;)

But yes, words can speak so much more than killing can. Taking away someone's life accomplishes nothing.
Let's eat mom.
Let's eat, mom.
Good grammar saves lives :D




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 398
Reviews 28
The pen can convince the sword where to strike, but the pen won't yeild to the sword, no? ^u^
I am a Leaf on the Wind,
Watch me Soar
~
Kyrie Eleison down the road that I must travel,
Kyrie Eleison through darkness of the night




User avatar
Gender Female
Points 5010
Reviews 133
The pen! Everything can happen in your stories. You can take the annoying neighbour from reality and make him shut up on paper! :D
Julie, a sucker for romance, historical fashion, medieval fairs and blues music. Add photography and you already know me 50%. The rest of me you'll discover through my writings and my photos.

my fictionpress
my greatest project, a history-inspired romance




User avatar
Gender Male
Points 2340
Reviews 28
What if there's an apparatus that functions equally as both a pen and a sword (or maybe a dagger)? Think about it, my friends.
"At this very instant, I augment the spacetime that permeates and weaves our beings."



If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
— Lemony Snicket