Jack Kevorkian Quotes

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.

The law doesn’t create a right.

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

I didn’t do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me – does that sound selfish?

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

You’ve gotta know what death is to know life!

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

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

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

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 not the kind of guy who has best friends.

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.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

Let’s hope you feel better now.

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

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

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

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

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

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

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 patient decides when it’s best to go.

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.

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

I’d find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

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

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

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