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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."
"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."
"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."
"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."
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."
"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes."
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