Jack Kevorkian Quotes
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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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.
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We are all terminal.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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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.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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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.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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The law doesn't create a right.
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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.
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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.