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Ronald Dworkin Quotes

Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American legal and political philosopher and one of the most influential jurisprudential thinkers of the late twentieth century. Successor to H. The quotes below are attributed to Ronald Dworkin, organized by topic.

Ronald Dworkin on Justice

  • Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:

    “Law is an interpretive concept.”

  • Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:

    “Rights are trumps over collective goals.”

  • Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:

    “Hard cases have a right answer, even if reasonable judges disagree.”

  • Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:

    “Equality of resources, not of welfare, is the proper egalitarian ideal.”

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Ronald Dworkin on Virtue

  • Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:

    “Living well requires taking responsibility for the value of one's own life.”