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So let's talk just a little bit more about you specifically. You were on bond to another judge when you committed this offense, you were not licensed to practice medicine when you committed this offense and you hadn't been licensed for eight years. And you had the audacity to go on national television, show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you. Well, sir, consider yourself stopped.

Jack Kevorkian#34

LawJusticeAuthorityHypocrisy

About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker criticizes the audience for challenging legal authority despite their own violations.
In plain terms
You broke rules but acted like you were right to expose the system.
What can you take from it?
Hypocrisy undermines moral standing in legal conflicts.

Where it applies

  • court proceedings
  • legal disputes
  • public challenges

Putting it to work

  • follow procedures
  • respect jurisdiction
  • acknowledge faults

Questions to consider

  • When is breaking the law justified?
  • Does authority require obedience?

Another view

Challenging unjust laws may require breaking existing rules intentionally.

More from Jack Kevorkian

  1. I don't like to think of him as the 'Doctor of Death', I think of him as a liberator.

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  2. There will be those who will be Kevorkian with class. They will look respectable. They will sound respectable. Their patients will be just as dead.

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  3. This is a medical service. It always was.

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