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The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
— John Rawls
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.
— John Rawls
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.
— John Rawls
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
— John Rawls
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
— John Rawls
An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
— John Rawls
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.
— John Rawls
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
— John Rawls
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
— John Rawls
Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.
— John Rawls
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
— John Rawls
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
— John Rawls
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
— John Rawls
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
— John Rawls
A just system must generate its own support.
— John Rawls
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
— John Rawls
Justice is happiness according to virtue.
— John Rawls
Justice as fairness provides what we want.
— John Rawls
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.
— John Rawls
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.
— John Rawls