Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

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

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.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

The law doesn't create a right.

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.

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

The patient decides when it's best to go.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

Everyone is going to die.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

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

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

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

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

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.

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.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

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.

Many support what I am doing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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