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.

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

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

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.

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

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

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.