Top 77 Quotes by Jack Kevorkian

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

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

I don't crave publicity, you know.

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.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

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.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

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