A just system must generate its own support.

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

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

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

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

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

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

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

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.

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

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

Every day we’re given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.