#human

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

— Leon Kass

#ban #banned #cloning #countries #efforts

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

— Leon Kass

#hands #human #human hands #human life #knows

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

— Leon Kass

#economic growth #enhancement #growth #human #important

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. ↗

— Casey Kasum

#advertiser #certain #comes #extra #feel

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil. ↗

— Graham Greene

#humanism #religion #food

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#best #blessed #faults #friend #human

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#between #border #chipping #come #cultures

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#been #body #energy #human #human nature

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts. We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . . The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#moral #morality #survival #survival-instinct #family

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#humor #religion #family