The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

"The pen is mightier than the sword" was coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his 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!

In coining that phrase, Bulwer proposed the novel idea that communication surpasses violence. However, Bulwer did have some predecessors of that idea.

• Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Thomas Paine in 1796, in which he wrote: "Go on doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword."
• The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), known to history for his military conquests, also left this oft-quoted remark: “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
• Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621 includes "From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword."
• William Shakespeare in 1600, in his play Hamlet Act 2, scene II, wrote: "... many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills."
• George Whetstone wrote in 1582, "The dashe of a Pen, is more grevious than the counterbuse of a Lance."
• The Greek playwright Euripides, who died circa 406 BC is supposed to have written: "The tongue is mightier than the blade."
  

In the era of the mighty information and communication technology explosion, we can perhaps update the above phrases with the following:-

"The computer is mightier than the sword"
"The notebook is mightier than the sword"
"The keyboard is mightier than the sword"
"The Internet is mightier than the sword"
"The mouse is mightier than the sword"
"The blog is mightier than the sword"

Which of the above modern phrases would you prefer?

(Source : Wikipedia)