John Rawls Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Ideas, Two

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

  John Rawls

  Rights, Democracy, Liberty

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.621, Harvard University Press

• I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

  John Rawls

  Survival, Democracy, Concerned

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.616, Harvard University Press

• Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the common good in the form of the means provided to assure that people can make use of their liberties, and the like.

  John Rawls

  Mean, Views, People

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.622, Harvard University Press

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