Top 49 Quotes by Leon Kass

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

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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.

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

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

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.

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