Top 49 Quotes by Leon Kass

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

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.

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

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

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

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

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.

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