Veil of Ignorance Quotes

Every opponent to socialism should consciously investigate if he, when he lived in hopeless poverty and humiliation, also would be an opponent to socialism

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.