Jack Kevorkian Quotes

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Jack Kevorkian

Profession : Activist

Birth : May 26, 1928

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.

Jack Kevorkian

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jack Kevorkian

I don't crave publicity, you know.

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I am not a sentimental person.

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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

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

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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Many support what I am doing.

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Liberty means more to me than life itself.

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

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

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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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Fear controls you.

Jack Kevorkian

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

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