Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

I am not a sentimental person.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

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

Let's hope you feel better now.

Fear controls you.

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

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?

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

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

I'm not a romantic.

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

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.

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

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.

The law is cruel.

I don't persuade to suicide.

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

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

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

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.

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?