An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
- Leon Kass Quote

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
- Leon Kass Quote

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
- Leon Kass Quote

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
- Leon Kass Quote

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
- Leon Kass Quote

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
- Leon Kass Quote

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
- Leon Kass Quote

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
- Leon Kass Quote

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
- Leon Kass Quote

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.
- Leon Kass Quote

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
- Leon Kass Quote

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
- Leon Kass Quote

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
- Leon Kass Quote

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
- Leon Kass Quote

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
- Leon Kass Quote

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
- Leon Kass Quote

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Leon Kass Quote

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
- Leon Kass Quote

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
- Leon Kass Quote


Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
- Leon Kass Quote

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
- Leon Kass Quote

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
- Leon Kass Quote

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
- Leon Kass Quote

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
- Leon Kass Quote

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
- Leon Kass Quote

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
- Leon Kass Quote

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
- Leon Kass Quote

We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
- Leon Kass Quote

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Leon Kass Quote

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
- Leon Kass Quote

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
- Leon Kass Quote