Best 56 quotes of Jack Kevorkian on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Dying is not a crime.

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?

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

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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 don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

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

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.

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.

I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.

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

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

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

I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

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

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

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

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Let's hope you feel better now.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

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.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

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

[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased... full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.

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

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

The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

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.

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.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

The public can tolerate a Nazi America.

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.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

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

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

Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.