Jack Kevorkian Quotes

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

Fear controls you.

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

Let's hope you feel better now.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.