Psycho-pass – Anime Quotes

But it's not like all his students can dive into that swamp and come back safely.

First, his talent was killed by science and technology. And then, his soul was killed by society.

— I'll go ahead and download it.
— Why don't you buy paper books? E-books lack character.
— Is that right?
— Books aren't just something you read. They're like a form of meditation.
— Meditation?
— Sometimes, when I'm not feeling well, I read books but I don't really absorb them. When that happens, it makes me think about what could be getting in the way. There are also books that I can absorb even when I'm feeling down. Sometimes I wonder why. It could be like mental conditioning. I think it's all about the stimulation your brain receives when you turn the pages. The feeling of flipping them over, one by one.

I think the only time people really have value is when they act according to their own will.

— What would you say is the most cunning animal? One that's at no risk of extinction no matter how many are hunted and killed?
— That'd be humans.

There are limits to the amount of pleasure a person can obtain in the flesh. However, pleasure brought out by the intellect is infinite.

People manifest all sorts of signs unconsciously. Once you get the knack of it, you can read those signs pretty easily.

Beautiful flowers, too, eventually wither and fall. That’s the fate of all living beings. And if so, the desire to preserve something in a state of greatest flourishing is quite understandable.

Unless you know despair, you cannot know hope.

Do you know the most demeaning thing you can do to the law that we should respect? Creating and administering a law that is unworthy of protection. You shouldn't underestimate humans.

Say you're at a dark swamp and you can't see the bottom. If you want to find out what's in that swamp, you have no choice but to jump in.

Chastity and grace... Traditional virtues that have been lost. They comprise the educational ideology of Ousou Academy. They're priorities that are not valued in boys, only in girls. After having them instilled in us, we're shipped out as a brand-name product — "refined, sheltered maidens" — and purchased by men who seek a classic piece of furniture called "a good wife and mother..." for a formality known as marriage. Students in this school are all components that will be processed into a piece of artwork called the "lady."

No matter how serious things get, once you've lived that way for a while, it just becomes routine for you.

In order to establish an absolute system, it is necessary to reject relative valuations such as "good" or "evil."