Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

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.

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

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.