"The intuitive idea is that since everyone's well-being depends upon a scheme of cooperation without which no one could have a satisfactory life, the division of advantages should be such as to draw fo…"

"The social minimum is not simply a matter of charity, but of justice."

"A just society is a society that everyone would agree to live in, if they did not know what their own position in that society would be."

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

"The principles of justice provide a public basis for justification."