The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

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.

The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.