Quotes from Jack Kevorkian

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

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.

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

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

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

We are all terminal.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

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 instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

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.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

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.

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

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

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

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.