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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."
"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."
"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
Explore more quotes by Leon Kass
"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."
"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."
"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."
"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."
"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"
"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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