"Justice as fairness is not a comprehensive moral doctrine, but a political conception of justice."

"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 primary goods are things that every rational man is presumed to want."

"Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."