Jack Kevorkian Quotes

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• 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…
• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
• 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…
• When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
• 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.
• 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…
• I don't persuade to suicide.
• Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
• 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…
• [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…
• There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not…
• 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…
• All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
• 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…
• 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…
• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
• You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the…
• I'm not lying to myself like most people.
• 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…

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