Hans Kung Quotes

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Every human being, including those who belong to the enemy, have rights.

Far beyond the bounds of human decency …. soldiers ought not be asked to defend a Constitution indifferent to their essential human dignity.

If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.

Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.

People have a right to certain non-negotiable demands of human dignity.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.

The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.

Our rights to live and to love each other, those rights are greater than any other right in the Constitution, period.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Every human life is worth so much.

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their rights.

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.