10 meaningful quotes by john rawls
- Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
- 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.
- No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
- 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.
- Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.
- 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.
- Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.
- In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
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