Jack Kevorkian Quotes

If a man is terrified, it’s up to me to dispel that terror.

Let’s hope you feel better now.

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?

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That’s what I’m fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don’t care.

Fear controls you.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn’t – that to me is not life.

The law doesn’t create a right.

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.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice.

Many support what I am doing.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I’m a killer.

When history looks back, it will prove what I’ll die knowing.

My religion centers in different areas than what’s considered conventional religion.

The patient decides when it’s best to go.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Everyone is going to die.

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.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

I’m not a romantic.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

I’d find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

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

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

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.

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

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

I’m not the kind of guy who has best friends.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

I’m not lying to myself like most people.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I’m not a criminal. The parole board knows I’m not a criminal. The judge knows I’m not a criminal.

I hate to say this, but I’ll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That’s not a smile.

Maybe I won‘t stay out of prison. Who knows?

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

Look at the forces against me. They don’t want me out. They’re afraid I’ll cause trouble if I get out.

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

You’ve gotta know what death is to know life!