Accepting Quote by Mildred Fay Jefferson

“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to…

— David Jeffrey

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

— William Shakespeare

“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

— Anonymous

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

— P. D. James

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self…

— Katy Butler

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

— Bill Vaughan

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will…

— Giorgio Baglivi

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy…

— Plato

“The doctor’s aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do…

— Richard Colgan

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the…

— Kofi Annan