Knife/legislation

Famous quotes containing the words knife and/or legislation:

“The screaming silence of no’s knife in yes’s wound.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.”
—Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)