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 conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)