John Rawls Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

• The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

  John Rawls

  Moving, Men, Evil

  John RAWLS (1971). “A Theory of Justice”, p.439, Harvard University Press

• An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

  John Rawls

  Religion, Morality, Injustice

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press

• 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.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Tolerance, Permit

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press

• What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.

  John Rawls

  Suicide, Talking, Afterlife

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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