John Rawls Law Quotations

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

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.