Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

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

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

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?

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

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

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

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.

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.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

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.

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.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.