Justice Quotes

"Background institutions must work continuously to prevent the accumulation of unjust advantage."

"There is no justified sacrifice of some of us for others."

"Patterned principles of distribution cannot be continuously maintained without continuous interference with liberty."

"We should not assume redistributive schemes are obviously justified."

"The concept of fairness in holding requires considering how holdings came about."

"Historical principles of justice look to how holdings arose."

"Restitution must account for how injustices have shaped the world."

"We cannot ignore how people come to possess their holdings."

"Justice requires examining the actual history of holdings."

"Patterns cannot be maintained without constant interference."

"The meaning of justice lies in process, not only outcome."

"The distribution resulting from a just process is itself just."

"Property rights emerge from legitimate acquisition."

"Rectification of past injustice is philosophically complex."

"Justice is not merely a matter of current distribution."

"The question of entitlement requires careful analysis."

"History matters for determining justice."

"Principles must account for how situations arose."

"Justice includes process, not only outcomes."

"Entitlement is historically determined."

"Law without decisionism is merely an abstract game of concepts."

"The question of legitimacy cannot be answered by legality alone."

"Jurisprudence divorced from politics becomes scholasticism."

"Decisionism without principle becomes mere tyranny."

"Legitimacy and legality diverge at the moment of exception."

"Law is always a response to a prior political decision."

"Decisionism is not lawlessness; it is the foundation of law itself."

"Legal formalism is the refuge of those who refuse to acknowledge power."

"Law without enforcement is merely suggestion."

"Jurisprudence becomes meaningful only when confronted with the impossible case."