A just system must generate its own support.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

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

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.