The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

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.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

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