Top 49 Quotes by Leon Kass

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

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

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.

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.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

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

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

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

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