Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

Let's hope you feel better now.

Fear controls you.

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.