31 quotes
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Is there really one kind of life which is best for each of these people?
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
What persons may and may not do to one another limits what they may do through the apparatus of a state, or do to establish such an apparatus.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Is not the minimal state, the framework for utopia, an inspiring vision?
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Our starting point then, though nonpolitical, is by intention far from nonmoral.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
No one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated) applications of 1 and 2.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Since I do not assume that there are such principles, I do not presume that the political realm will whither away.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
How dare any state or group of individuals do more. Or less.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality.
The Nature of Rationality (1993)
Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)