The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

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.

Death finds you in such strange poses. How long can you cry, until the rivers gone and dry.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.