A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Product, Circumstances, Renewal
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Soul, Circumstances, Though, Idealist
In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Love, Change, Faith, Horizontal
Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Racism, Been, Attitudes, Inhuman
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