The sword can refer to the power to protect or to destroy. Man has used his physical strength more to destroy than to create or protect. 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.”. If the pen represents the world of ideas, it is to be remembered that man without his ideas or intelligence could have never created the sword. If man uses his pen of ideas to visualize the use of all the swords in the world towards destructive ends, that would still maintain the superiority of the pen. The victories of the sword are short lived. Alexander’s desire to conquer the world remained unfulfilled. Hitler overran Europe but was defeated in the Second World War. The plays of Shakespeare, the poetry of Keats and Wordsworth, or the novels of Dickens still alive among readers. Pen is mightier because it gives good counsel, promotes cultural values and graces of life. Thus helping to remove Cob-webs from society. One the contrary, war destroys cultures and negates the cultural values. The power of a pen is enormously larger than a sword. What a sharp edged sword can’t achieve can be achieved by the help of a minute tip of a pen. What it implies is that the power of writing is much stronger than the power of hatred, war and fighting. A war always ends in killings and has only a single directional ending - defeat, death, loss… There is no end of the tunnel when a war is there, and even if it comes, there is no light… It all depends on whether we treat the fruit of knowledge as poison or manna. The sword is merely an instrument; it is the world of ideas and thoughts as represented by the pen that decides the use of this instrument towards a fair or foul end. Fear not the sword, but the hand that wields it.