All Leon Kass Quotes
- The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. Ethics
- There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. Ancient
- We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. Came
- We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. Culture
- We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years. Inspirational
- Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder Forgotten
- There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. Babies
- The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. Abortion
- 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… Celebrity
- My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes. Consideration
- In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. Asexual
- But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what… Albatross
- In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. Abortion
- Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. Children
- We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. Engineering
- If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. Cloning
- Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. Clear
- Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. Brain
- Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. Already Banned
- Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. Accomplishment
- It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. Country
- Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. Changes
- Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. Advance
- 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… Caution
- There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. Advances