Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

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.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.

I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!