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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
"Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity."
"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
Explore more quotes by Leon Kass
"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."
"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."
"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
"Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal."
"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes."
"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."
"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."
"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
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