A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians Quotes

“That’s what all laws should do. Impose the restrictions that, if human beings were always moral and rational, they would impose upon themselves.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“I sometimes think ‘just this once’ is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“Visions are dangerous when nobody else can see them.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“I don't believe you really want to stop the war at all."
"I never said I did," the other said.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“They won't do anything here either. They'll listen, and they'll nod, and they'll agree what a shame it is. Some will even say it very loudly and angrily. But they won't act. People are dying, and suffering worse than death--hundreds of thousands of people. I know they weigh on your soul. Words won't save them. Somebody, somewhere, must actually do something, and that must be you.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“I think you're important enough that it would be an assassination, rather than a murder."
"Comforting, still unhelpful.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“You were right," Wilberforce announced without further preamble.
"Probably," Pitt said. "About what was I right this time?”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“Coming into the House of Commoners to escape the snow is heresy. Akin to using hundred-year-old wine to clean your toothbrush.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“Impose the restrictions that, if human beings were always moral and rational, they would impose upon themselves.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

“The Old Cordelier, seventh issue: “I believe that Liberty is humanity; thus I believe that Liberty would not prevent the relations of prisoners from seeing their fathers, their husbands, or their sons; I believe that Liberty would not condemn a mother to knock in vain for eight hours at the door of the Conciergerie, in the hope of speaking to her son, and when this unhappy woman had accomplished a hundred leagues in spite of her great age, to oblige her, to see him yet once again, to wait for him upon the road to the scaffold. I believe that Liberty is magnanimous: she would not insult a condemned criminal at the foot of the guillotine, and after his execution, because death wipes out the crime.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians