Quotes By Leon Kass

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

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

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

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

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

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

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

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

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.

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

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

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

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

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

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

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