John Rawls Quotes

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

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