Arthur Caplan Quotes

#1. In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

Richard King

#2. How important it is to stay true to yourself even in the midst of an adventure or experiment.

Piper Kerman

#3. There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.

Arthur Caplan

#4. You must be present in the present to make it a present.-RVM

R.v.m.

#5. If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

Iain M. Banks

#6. Well, long way from home and,
Can't sleep at all.
You know another mule,
Is kickin in your stall.

Willie Dixon

#7. The ambition of instantaneous photography ... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.

Rudolf Arnheim

#8. I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#9. I say to those people who are desperately trying to get healthy, in those moments where you feel like you can't go any further, you can.

Mo'Nique

#10. With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

Arthur Caplan

#11. A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

Arthur Caplan

#12. The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.

Arthur Caplan

#13. You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

George Schaller

#14. Maybe you should just admit that you're crazy about me," he said, leaning in to kiss her again.
"And why would you want me to do that?" she asked, still smiling.
"Because I'm playing for keeps, my little grasshopper.

R.L. Mathewson

#15. The Captain turned away from the mirror and said, 'Thank God, I'm not in danger of prison here. I'm only in danger of death.

Graham Greene

#16. She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned under water, he thought.

Virginia Woolf

#17. The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.

Arthur Caplan

#18. Don't curse the darkness but light a candle.

Brother Andrew

#19. The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

Arthur Caplan

#20. The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.

Arthur Caplan

#21. Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans.

Arthur Caplan

#22. Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that's what a thief does; he redistributes income. The difference between government and thievery is mostly a matter of legality.

Walter E. Williams

#23. Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.

Arthur Caplan