Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

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.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.

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.

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