Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Kevorkian - Page 2

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

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

I'm not a romantic.

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

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

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.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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

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

I am not a sentimental person.

Many support what I am doing.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

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'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.

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.

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.

The law doesn't create a right.

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

The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

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.

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'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 learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

The public can tolerate a Nazi America.

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.

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

[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.

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.

Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?

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.

When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

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

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.

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 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.

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.