"Justice as fairness provides a framework for public practical reasoning."

"A conception of justice is stable if, when the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period, those subject to these arrangements acquire a sense of jus…"

"Once we understand the principles of justice, we can then apply them to the real world, and see what kind of society they would lead to."

"The two principles of justice are a special case of a more general conception of justice that can be expressed as follows: All social values—liberty and opportunity, income and wealth, and the bases o…"

"The intuitive force of the difference principle is that it ensures that the least advantaged benefit from the achievements of the more advantaged."