53 Quotes by Leon R. Kass

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

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

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

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.

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

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

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

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

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