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)

“The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)