Leon Kass Quotes

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Leon Kass

Mean, Wish, Nobody

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
Leon Kass

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
Leon Kass

Life, Live, Care

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Leon Kass

Children, Parents, Between

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Leon Kass

Family, Hard, Relations

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Leon Kass

Wise, May, Enough

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
Leon Kass

Before, Stop, Seriously

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass

Happiness, Easy, Might

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
Leon Kass

Life, Woman, Against

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
Leon Kass

Parents, Choice, Actually

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Leon Kass

Suffering, Everybody, Almost

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Leon Kass

Problems, Solution, Direct

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
Leon Kass

Life, Science, Meaning

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Leon Kass

Powerful, Danger, Clear

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Leon Kass

Work, Mind, Brain

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Leon Kass

Successful, Efforts, Cloning

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
Leon Kass

Thoughts, Sound, Forced

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
Leon Kass

Respect, Nothing, Before

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
Leon Kass

Human, Beginning, Cloning

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
Leon Kass

Two, Child, Cloning

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
Leon Kass

Life, Long, Self

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
Leon Kass

Thinking, Country, Seems

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
Leon Kass

Short, Wanted, Child

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Leon Kass

Far, Changes, Simply

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Leon Kass

Human, Universal, Countries

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Nationality: American

Born: February 12, 1939

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