"The problem of justice is to specify the principles that free and rational persons concerned to further their own interests would accept in an initial position of equality."

"The principles of justice are those that would be chosen by rational beings in a situation of equality."

"The principles of justice are to be publicly recognized as the final court of appeal for ordering institutions."

"The main idea is that society is a cooperative venture for mutual advantage."

"The general conception of justice requires that all social primary goods—liberty and opportunity, income and wealth, and the bases of self-respect—are to be distributed equally unless an unequal distr…"