“And how many a generation did We destroy before them who were mightier in prowess than they, so they went about and about in the lands. Is there a place of refuge? / Most surely there is a reminder in this for him who has a heart or he gives ear and is a witness.”
quran
“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”
American Proverb
“Things seen are mightier than things heard.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Then We destroyed those who were stronger than these in prowess, and the case of the ancients has gone before, / And if you should ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth? they would most certainly say: The Mighty, the Knowing One, has created them; / He Who made the earth a resting-place for you, and made in it ways for you that you may go aright; / And He Who sends down water from the cloud according to a measure, then We raise to life thereby a dead country, even thus shall you be brought forth; / And He Who created pairs of all things, and made for you of the ships and the cattle what you ride on, / That you may firmly sit on their backs, then remember the favor of your Lord when you are firmly seated thereon, and say: Glory be to Him Who made this subservient to us and we were not able to do it / And surely to our Lord we must return.”
“Without an adversary, prowess shrivels.”
Seneca
