Jack Kevorkian Quotes
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I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.
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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.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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The public can tolerate a Nazi America.
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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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Dying is not a crime.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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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.
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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Many support what I am doing.
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My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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