53 Quotes by Leon R. Kass

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

I don’t like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

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

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

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

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

We know next to nothing of what we’re going to know in 20 or 50 years.

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.