[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

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

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

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

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

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

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

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.