A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

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.

Some seek and find peace in life

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

Fear manifested invites danger.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up