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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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Leon Kass
"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."
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Leon Kass
"We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it."
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Leon Kass
"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."
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Leon Kass
"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."
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Leon Kass
"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."
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Leon Kass
"The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether."
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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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Leon Kass
"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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Leon Kass
"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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Leon Kass
"Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman."

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"We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world."

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"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."

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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

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