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.

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

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

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.

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

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

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.