John Rawls Quotes
- The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather…
- Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of…
- In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
- Justice is the first virtue of social institutions,
- It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
- 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…
- Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings…
- The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
- Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations…
- A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.
- 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…
- The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only…
- The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
- Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.
- Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
- The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
- The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply…