Distributive Quotes

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. (Edmund Burke)
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual. View quote
Abdoulaye Wade
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
The idea that reason requires an impartial treatment of individuals corresponds to well-known principles. To resolve the questions of distributive justice, Leibniz proposes the following maxim: "Put your self in the place of everyone.” In recent theories, this amounts to saying that the choice of a just organization of society must take place behind a "veil of ignorance,” an idea that can be interpreted in several ways. For utilitarianism, each individual must count as one, and none as more than one. For John Rawls, we have to choose the form of society that favors the least advantaged, whoever they might be. Another impartial idea is that of universal rights, embodied in the two declarations of 1776 and 1789. View quote
Jon Elster
Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice; towards which all institutions, and the efforts of all virtuous citizens, should be made in the utmost degree to converge. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Market socialism does not fully satisfy socialist standards of distributive justice, but it scores far better by those standards than market capitalism does, and is therefore an eminently worthwhile project, from a socialist point of view. View quote
Gerald Cohen