Euthanasia Quotes - Page 3

• Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  War, Issues, Diversity

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• Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Mistake, Eugenics

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  People, Buttons, Needs

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Jack Kevorkian : Defending Assisted Suicide Right Up to the End". Interview With Jack Lessenberry, articles.latimes.com. December 12, 1993.

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• In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Moving, Ideas, Development

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• Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

  Milan Kundera

  Dog, Animal, Law

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

  Nat Hentoff

  Government, England

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust

  Richard Weikart

  War, Struggle, Eugenics

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• We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act or speak against the commandments, in particular when abortions, euthanasia, and other serious crimes against life and family are facilitated. This responsibility applies particularly to legislators, governors, and health professionals.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, People, Pro Life

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• But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Dies, Seems

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  Karen Morley

  Furniture, Tested, Ifs

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• Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Killing

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• The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Practice, Dutch, Islamists

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• Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

  Dov Davidoff

  Jobs, Fighting, Comedian

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• What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

  Bill Veeck

  Bats, Answers, Able

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Motivation, Views

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• From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.

  Pete du Pont

  Nazi Concentration Camps, Fields, Gulags

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• You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shoes, People, World

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• If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

  Joe Lieberman

  Pain, Thinking, Doctors

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• […] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

  Sebastian Horsley

  Abortion, Misery, Life Is

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Goes On, Meaning Of Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.329, Penguin

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• My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Positive Experiences, Aim, Ultimate

  "'Dr Death' Jack Kevorkian, advocate of assisted suicide, dies in hospital" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, Unloved

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• We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

  Scott McClellan

  Decision, President, Culture

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