Mary Hart Quotes

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

I don't want to ever intentionally hurt someone, because it is pure entertainment.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

Evil is wrought by want of thought

I lament that two or three women and children were killed by accident.

We should be very chary of sacrificing large numbers of people for the sake of a contingent end, however advantageous that may appear… We never know enough to make the chance worth taking.

This is a tragedy among human history, the result of large numbers of human errors.

Even things like supermarket self-checkouts, they do mean people's jobs go. It's always worth thinking about the implications of things. Just because something's easier, it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

All of our actions have consequences whether we know it or not. We never know what people are going through until something tragic happens - if they don't talk about it.

One thing that I would like to get across is that even the most horrible events do have explanations that we can understand. And it's not always comfortable for us to understand, because in order to understand, we have to see how we're not so far away from the people in question.

Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in a safe and pleasing setting.

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.