Top 87 Lou Rawls Quotes
#1. I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
Edgar Winter
#2. Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
John Rawls
#3. Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out of the circles of tin with her scissors. I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks.
Wilson Rawls
#4. I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.
Wilson Rawls
#5. Justice as fairness provides what we want.
John Rawls
#6. The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
John Rawls
#7. Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
John Rawls
#8. Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.
Lou Rawls
#9. I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.
Lou Rawls
#10. Justice is happiness according to virtue.
John Rawls
#12. In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.
John Rawls
#13. Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.
John Rawls
#15. 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
#16. An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
John Rawls
#17. The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
John Rawls
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.
Wilson Rawls
#22. 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
#23. Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.
John Rawls
#24. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
John Rawls
#25. Grandpa," I asked, "what good's it going to do us, knowing his name?" "It might do a lot of good," Grandpa said. "This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do." "Make friends with him!" I said. "Grandpa, I don't
Wilson Rawls
#26. John Rawls (1971) called the publicity principle. In its simplest form, the publicity principle bans government from selecting a policy that it would not be able or willing to defend publicly to its own citizens.
Richard H. Thaler
#27. 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
#28. It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
John Rawls
#29. First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.
John Rawls
#30. The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.
Lou Rawls
#31. There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
John Rawls
#32. The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
John Rawls
#33. My heart started acting like a drunk grasshopper.
Wilson Rawls
#35. With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.
Wilson Rawls
#36. The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
John Rawls
#37. Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.
John Rawls
#38. The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state's authority than the celibacy of priests challenges the sanctity of marriage.
John Rawls
#39. No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
John Rawls
#40. Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls
#41. There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.
Lou Rawls
#42. A just system must generate its own support.
John Rawls
#43. 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
#44. I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.
Betsy Rawls
#45. We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.
John Rawls
#46. The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
John Rawls
#47. 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
#48. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.
Wilson Rawls
#49. I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won.
Wilson Rawls
#50. An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
John Rawls
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.
John Rawls
#55. I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.
Lou Rawls
#56. 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
#57. A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.
Lou Rawls
#58. [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
John Rawls
#59. We strive for the best we can attain within the scope the world allows.
John Rawls
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Rawls, the back-up running back (Tank wrenched his leg out of socket, which I didn't know was possible).
Alan Janney
#67. HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect
Wilson Rawls
#68. I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
Lou Rawls
#69. In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
John Rawls
#70. The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
John Rawls
#71. When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
John Rawls
#72. It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.
Wilson Rawls
#73. Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
John Rawls
#74. If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.
Wilson Rawls
#75. An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty ... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.
John Rawls
#76. He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.
Wilson Rawls
#77. I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.
Lou Rawls
#78. Didn't know why I was holding my breath because I knew that the old saying of how you could hold your breath and nothing would sting you was pure hogwash. I had tried that before and it hadn't worked at all. Rowdy would have absolutely nothing to do with anything that
Wilson Rawls
#79. If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.
John Rawls
#81. When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?
Lou Rawls
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.
John Rawls
#87. The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
John Rawls
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