Frases de Jack Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian foi um médico estadunidense.

Kevorkian é mundialmente conhecido por sua luta para fazer do suicídio assistido um direito de todos. Médico patologista aposentado que inventou a “máquina do suicídio”, ele deu apoio a mais de 130 doentes terminais dos Estados Unidos para pôr um fim nas suas vidas com a eutanásia, ganhando o apelido de Dr. Morte. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Maio 1928 – 3. Junho 2011
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Jack Kevorkian: Frases em inglês

“This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.”

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 16 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

“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.”

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

“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.”

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

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

Quoted in "The Michigan Alumnus‎" - Page 28 - by University of Michigan Alumni Association - 1996
1990s, 1996

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

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

“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.”

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

“You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating?”

Quoted in "Physician-assisted death"‎ - Page 100 - by James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder, Gregg A. Kasting - 1994
1990s, 1994

“This is a medical service. It always was.”

Quoted in "Physician-assisted death"‎ - Page 100 - by James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder, Gregg A. Kasting - 1994
1990s, 1994

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

Quoted in "Words of Wisdom‎" - by Mick Farren - Philosophy - 2004 - Page 122
2000s, 2004

“My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.”

Quoted in "Years of Minutes"‎ - Page 331 - by Andy Rooney - 2004
2000s, 2004

“All the big powers…they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.”

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

“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.”

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

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

As quoted in "Kevorkian Plans Congressional Run" (13 March 2008), Fox News
2000s, 2008

“Dying is not a crime.”

As quoted in Introducing Christian Ethics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4051-5276-1 (2010), by Samuel Wells and Ben Quash, John Wiley and Sons, p. 329