The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'

- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Lyonesse stared wide-eyed at Lynet’s hand and swallowed hard. Lynet realized that she was still holding the carving knife and had been pointing it at Lyonesse’s breast. She laid the knife down slowly and gathered a few plates of food. “I’ll take the rest of my dinner in my room, I think,” she said.

The way it's written now, the legislative branch would totally give up any oversight of those records. That's the danger.