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The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

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.

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

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

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

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

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

A just system must generate its own support.

We strive for the best we can attain within the scope the world allows.

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

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

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

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.