John Rawls Quotes

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

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both...

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

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to our nature and those requirements. This endeavor belongs to political philosophy as reconciliation;...

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state's authority than the celibacy of priests challenges...

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

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 revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutio...

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