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"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer."
"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."
"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
Explore more quotes by Leon Kass
"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."
"I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them."
"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"
"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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