Rush Quotes by Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

— Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

— Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

— Leon Kass

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

— Leon Kass

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