Hans Kung Quotes

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.