A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.