Tears. The woman’s weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man’s weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn’t it?
One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.
My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind…and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.[translation by John Willis Clark]Away with those who assert that letters have the pre-eminence over arms.[translation by John Ormsby][Quítenseme delante los que dijeren que las letras hacen ventaja a las armas.]
Knowledge is a weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.