No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

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.

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

The more Africa depends on aid the less opportunities it creates for its people

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

We've turned into a whining society.

Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities