Wesley J. Smith Quotes

United States, Lawyer
1949

Wesley J. Smith is an American lawyer and author, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, a politically conservative non-profit think tank. He is also a consultant for the Patients Rights Council. Smith is known for his criticism of assisted suicide and utilitarian bioethics.

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“I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.”

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I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.

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- Money
- Ironic
- Pocket

Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

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- Live
- Answer
- Self-killing
“Dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.”

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- People
- Culture
- Thrive
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

Wesley J. Smith
- Question
- Human
- Morality