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Leon Kass

"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes."

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"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

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"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society."

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"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

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Amber Hurdle

"Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct."

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."
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"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
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"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."
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"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."
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"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
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"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"
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"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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"We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it."
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"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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"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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