Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

- John Rawls

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

- John Rawls

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

- John Rawls

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

- 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

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

- John Rawls

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

- John Rawls