The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

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.

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.