Leon Kass Quotes

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

This is the biggest mistake I've made so far in my life ... When you're a sportsman, you shouldn't be involved with politics.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

If officials on the spot commit in good faith an error of judgment, which is worse—to support them or to throw them over?

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.