Quotes by Leon Kass

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. (Leon Kass)

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in Gods image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of ones own. (Leon Kass)

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. (Leon Kass)

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

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. (Leon Kass)

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. (Leon Kass)

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

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. (Leon Kass)

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