John Rawls Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Justice as fairness provides what we want.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Want, Fairness

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.190, Harvard University Press

• The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Philanthropy, Mankind

• The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

  John Rawls

  Ignorance, Justice, Principles

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.11, Harvard University Press

• A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Stable

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.498, Harvard University Press

• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Firsts, Virtue

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

• Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Assuming, Advantage

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.116, 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

• I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Support, Feelings

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.513, Harvard University Press

• 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.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Reform, Obedience

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.59, Harvard University Press

• A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Political, Essentials

• Justice is happiness according to virtue.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Virtue

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.310, Harvard University Press

• You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines they want every other citizen to have justice. So you might say they're all working together to do one thing, namely to make sure every citizen has justice. Now that's not the only interest they all have, but it's the single thing they're all trying to do. In my language, they've striving toward one single end, the end of justice for all citizens.

  John Rawls

  Justice For All, Working Together, Trying

• The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

  John Rawls

  Rights, Justice, Principles

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.9, Harvard University Press

• An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Might, Half

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.37, Harvard University Press

• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

  John Rawls

  Law, Justice, Unjust

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

• The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

  John Rawls

  Justice, May, Normal

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.109, Harvard University Press

• The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Judging, Fundamentals

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.230, Harvard University Press

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