No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.