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Judith Jarvis Thomson Quotes on Justice

Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral and metaphysical philosopher and a long-serving professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This page collects quotes attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:

    “A defense of abortion does not require a denial of personhood.”

  • Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:

    “We have rights, but we also have duties to one another.”

  • Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:

    “The trolley problem reveals the structure of our moral intuitions.”

  • Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:

    “What you may not do is not always what you must not allow to happen.”