"The two principles of justice are lexical order, which means that the first principle has priority over the second."

"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…"

"The idea of public reason is not a limit on individual thought, but a limit on how citizens are to present their political arguments to one another."

"The difference principle represents, in effect, an agreement to regard the distribution of natural talents as a common asset and to share in the benefits of this distribution whatever it turns out to …"

"Ignorance of these particulars about oneself means that no one is able to tailor principles to his own advantage."