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Ronald Dworkin Quotes on Justice

Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American legal and political philosopher and one of the most influential jurisprudential thinkers of the late twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Ronald Dworkin on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • 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.”