Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

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

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

Peace surely is a good reason, yes. But there are other reasons too.