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The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice (John Rawls Quotes)
The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well (John Rawls Quotes)
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts (John Rawls Quotes)
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role (John Rawls Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice (John Rawls Quotes)
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice (John Rawls Quotes)
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed (John Rawls Quotes)
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact (John Rawls Quotes)
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform (John Rawls Quotes)
The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result (John Rawls Quotes)
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have (John Rawls Quotes)
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions (John Rawls Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved (John Rawls Quotes)
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 (John Rawls Quotes)
The hazards of the generalized prisoner’s dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good (John Rawls Quotes)
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 (John Rawls Quotes)
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose (John Rawls Quotes)
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case (John Rawls Quotes)
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society (John Rawls Quotes)
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry (John Rawls Quotes)
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary (John Rawls Quotes)
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