Judge John Deed (TV Series)

Everyone's Child (2002)

Martin Shaw: Judge John Deed

Quotes 

• Judge John Deed : Compassion: The Ultimate Ethic It's not exactly light reading.

  Jason Powell : Dad says I should be reading Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings

  Judge John Deed : Have you read those?

  Jason Powell : They're okay. Neither's got a workable or consistent philosophy.

  Judge John Deed : [Chuckles]  Isn't that something we develop along the way?

  Jason Powell : If there's time

  Judge John Deed : Do you know why I'm here, Jason?

  Jason Powell : Mum told me

  Judge John Deed : She's very concerned about you. She doesn't want you to die.

  Jason Powell : Nor me.

  Judge John Deed : That's what's going to happen if you go on with this.

  Jason Powell : I don't want anyone or anything killed just so I can survive

  Judge John Deed : Like who?

  Jason Powell : The girl whose heart they want me to take for a start.

  Judge John Deed : The donor's brain dead, Jason. She's not coming back.

  Jason Powell : Not if they take her heart, she isn't. Brain stem death was something they thought up in 1995 when they couldn't find enough donors.

  Judge John Deed : Parents can't imagine the possibility even imagine the possibility of surviving their children.

  Jason Powell : When Jesus said, "Suffer those who be as little children to come unto me," he wasn't ' just talking about my kind. "So hurt not, therefore, one of these little ones for whom the heavenly Father careth. If anyone hurts or destroys one of these little ones, it would be better for that one had he never been born."