Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Gene Fowler

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
John Philip Sousa

The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
Marty Feldman

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Aeschylus