"The general conception of justice requires that all social primary goods—liberty and opportunity, income and wealth, and the bases of self-respect—are to be distributed equally unless an unequal distr…"

"A society is well-ordered when it is effectively regulated by a public conception of justice."

"The difference principle requires that inequalities work to the benefit of the least advantaged."

"We are not to think of the original position as an actual assembly."

"The idea of reflective equilibrium is a state of affairs where one has considered various proposed principles and has revised one's judgments and principles until they cohere."