Hans Kung Quotes

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

- Hans Kung

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

- Hans Kung

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

- Hans Kung

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

- Hans Kung

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

- Hans Kung

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

- Hans Kung

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

- Hans Kung

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

- Hans Kung

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

- Hans Kung

The Gospel has to be the norm.

- Hans Kung

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

- Hans Kung

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

- Hans Kung

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

- Hans Kung

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

- Hans Kung

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

- Hans Kung

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

- Hans Kung

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

- Hans Kung

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

- Hans Kung

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

- Hans Kung

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

- Hans Kung

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

- Hans Kung

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

- Hans Kung

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

- Hans Kung