A just system must generate its own support.
An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.
Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society.
It may be expedient but it is not just that some should have less in order that others may prosper.
Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.
Justice is happiness according to virtue.
Many conservative writers have contended that the tendency to equality in modern social movements is the expression of envy. In this way they seek to discredit this trend, attributing it to collectively harmful impulses.
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.
The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.
To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.
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