Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

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 single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

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.

I'm not a romantic.

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

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.

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

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

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

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

The law is cruel.

I don't persuade to suicide.

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

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.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

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.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

I can paint in jail.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

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 patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.