# Quote — Dean Koontz, Watchers

> … mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

- Author: [Dean Koontz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz.md)
- Book: [Watchers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/watchers.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz#Watchers_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/watchers/mankind-has-no-right

## More from this book

> It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/watchers/its-so-damn.md)

> As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather… the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it — very loose, the line of the law — so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always — short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder — safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/watchers/as-an-attorney.md)

> Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/watchers/did-you-get.md)