"An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception."

-- John Rawls

#Justice Quotes #Half Quotes #Might Quotes

“We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.”
“An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.”

Source : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1816). “The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.326
“I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.”
“Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!”
“You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.”
“We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"”
“When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.”

You may also like:

Amartya Sen
Economist
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
John Locke
Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher
Jurgen Habermas
Philosopher
Michael Sandel
Philosopher
Robert Nozick
Philosopher
Ronald Dworkin
Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher