Pen and sword

[Jules Levin]

At 09:23 AM 8/26/2005, you wrote:
>Please consider Bulgakov's "rukopisi ne goriat" as a good equivalent.
>Alexander Boguslawski
>Rollins College

Perhaps the reason there really is no exact equivalent is that in Russian 
experience the pen is NOT
mightier than the sword.  Words are golden, and remember Pushkin's quatrain 
about gold and steel.
There are other proverbs in English that assert the supremacy of something 
else over force.  Is there a Russian
equivalent to "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world"?  On second 
thought, I guess that that does not subvert the
sword...
Jules Levin

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