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

- John Rawls

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

- John Rawls

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…

- John Rawls

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…

- John Rawls

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

- John Rawls

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

- John Rawls

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

- John Rawls

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

- John Rawls

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

- John Rawls