The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them..

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions..

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place..

Justice as fairness provides what we want..

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance..

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or ….

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or re….

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogma….

Justice is happiness according to virtue..

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind..

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society..

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this shou….

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice..

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable..

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests..

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have..

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another..

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simpl….

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expect….

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using the….

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equa….