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'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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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 have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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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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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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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 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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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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We are all terminal.
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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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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 am not a sentimental person.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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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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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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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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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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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.
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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.