Jack Kevorkian Quotes

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Society, Lost, Trying

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Sports, Happy, Working

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

Human, Free, Big

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Medical, Experience, Wish

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 world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
Jack Kevorkian

Life, Work, Why

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Nothing, Country, Die

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian

Law, Conscience, Follow

Let's hope you feel better now.
Jack Kevorkian

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
Jack Kevorkian

Freedom, Pay, Willing

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Life, Said, Question

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
Jack Kevorkian

Selfish, Sound, Fought

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Tired, Boredom, Until

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Jack Kevorkian

Life, Good, Mean

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
Jack Kevorkian

Nice, Friends, Talk

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

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
Jack Kevorkian

Find, Cleaning, Demeaning

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Money, Business, Today

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.
Jack Kevorkian

God, Person, Means

Fear controls you.
Jack Kevorkian

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
Jack Kevorkian

Regret, Suffering, Patient

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Good, Best, Food

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
Jack Kevorkian

Regrets, None, Whatsoever

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

Try, Ahead, Jail

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian

Doubt, Die, Expect

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

Society, Himself, Crime

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Nationality: American

Born: May 28, 1928

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