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

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

I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world ... Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.

There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.