Leon Kass
Leon Kass

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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
Leon Kass

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Leon Kass
Leon Kass

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