Quotes from Jack Kevorkian

I can paint in jail.

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.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. 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 a criminal.

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.

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

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.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

I don't persuade to suicide.

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

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

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

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

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.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

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 a criminal.

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.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

Let's hope you feel better now.

Fear controls you.

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

The law is cruel.

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.

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.