Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

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

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

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

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.