Facts about Leon Kass

Occup.	Educator
From	USA
Born	February 12, 1939
Age	86 years

Summary

Leon Kass is a famous Educator from USA, he/she is 86 years old and still alive, born February 12, 1939.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 41 quotes who is written / told by Leon.

41 Famous quotes by Leon Kass

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

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

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"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"

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

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

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

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

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

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"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one"

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

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

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

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

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

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"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own"

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

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"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 about doing"

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

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"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"

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

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"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"

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

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"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems"

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

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

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

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"There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated"

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"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 even a celebrity"

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"Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries"

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

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"Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument"

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

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

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

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"We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation"

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

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

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

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

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

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"Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering"

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