Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

Many support what I am doing.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

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

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

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

We are all terminal.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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.

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

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

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

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.