One sign of a magic word

Number 131 of the "One Hundred Sixty-Three Tolstoyan Conclusions":

One sign of a magic word is that one cannot imagine opposing what it purports to stand for. Is there anyone against education, justice, and progress?

Number 132:

Another sign of a magic word is that those who invoke it do not ask how exactly to achieve the purpose it names.

(from Gary Saul Morson's Anna Karenina in Our Time, 2007)