"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

Life, Duty, End, Ending

"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."

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

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"Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing."

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

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"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."

Business, Money, Illness, Medicine

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"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

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"What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing."

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

"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."

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

"Nobody's sane above the law."