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A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1) QUOTES

A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1) QUOTES

1 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)

2 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)

3 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)

4 " Visions are dangerous when nobody else can see them. "

― H.G. Parry , A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1)

5 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)

6 " 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 Shadow Histories #1)

7 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)

8 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)

9 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)

10 " 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 (The Shadow Histories #1)