J Rawls Quotes

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

John Rawls

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

John Rawls

#3. Internet friends are real friends

Wilson Rawls

#4. When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

Lou Rawls

#5. The other limitation on our discussion is that for the most part I examine the principles of justice that would regulate a well-ordered society. Everyone is presumed to act justly and to do his part in upholding just institutions.

John Rawls

#6. 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

#7. Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.

Wilson Rawls

#8. Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or to remain Catholic, it was a terrible time. For once the original religion fragments, which religion then leads to salvation?

John Rawls

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

John Rawls

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

John Rawls

#11. 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

#12. The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

John Rawls

#13. I don't see how anything like that can keep a coon in a tree," I said. "It'll keep him there all right," Grandpa

Wilson Rawls

#14. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

Wilson Rawls

#15. I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won.

Wilson Rawls

#16. Rawls, the back-up running back (Tank wrenched his leg out of socket, which I didn't know was possible).

Alan Janney

#17. 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

#18. As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that they do not view themselves as inevitably tied to the pursuit of the particular conception of the good and its final ends which they espouse at any given time.

John Rawls

#19. 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

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

John Rawls

#21. I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

Lou Rawls

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

John Rawls

#23. A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Lou Rawls

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

John Rawls

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

John Rawls

#26. I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.

Wilson Rawls

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Looking to the mountains around us, I saw that the mysterious artist who comes at night had paid us a visit. I wondered how he could paint so many different colors in one night; red, wine, yellow, and rust.

Wilson Rawls