If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

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

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

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

A just system must generate its own support.

The question is, we have a particular problem. How many religions are there in the United States? How are they going to get on together? One way, which has been the usual way historically, is to fight it out, as in France in the sixteenth century. That's a possibility.

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