There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

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.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Whether they're glad or mortified to have said whatever, Paul Fein wasn't going to let such good quotes get away from us.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

Hearts understand in ways our minds cannot.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.