Brent Spiner Quotes

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

The American people have not become heartless.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Everyone responds to kindness.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.