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

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 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.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

..So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

I'm into mellow dates with really good food.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress