John Rawls — "The principles of justice are to be chosen under conditions of imperfect informa…"

"The problem of justice is to specify the principles that free and rational persons concerned to further their own interests would accept in an initial position of equality."

"The idea of a liberal democracy is that citizens are free and equal and have a right to participate in the political process."

"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…"

"We are not trying to find a theory that explains our considered judgments of justice; we are trying to find a theory that justifies them."

"The basic structure of society is the primary subject of justice."