Psycho-pass – Anime Quotes

— Why are you so focused on making sure nobody kills Makishima?
— Because it's illegal. Because I can't overlook a crime.
— Why are you going that far to obey the law when that law can neither judge a criminal nor protect people?
— The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law.

That's a lie. Everyone here is the same. They don't notice anything. They don't say anything. They don't think anything. They are mere shells of their former selves, soon to disappear like the melting snow. This epidemic leads innocent people to their deaths, and yet, its pathogen will never be eradicated. This is the disease called serenity, a form of death that people have wished for.

— Why? I thought you'd be able to understand... the joy of omnipotence and the pleasure of governing the world...
— Like God, you mean? That might be pleasurable in its own way, but unfortunately I'm not into being an umpire or a referee. I can't genuinely enjoy the game unless I'm part of it. And I love this game that people call "life" from the bottom of my heart. That's why I'd like to continue to participate in it as a player, forever and ever.

Gino, don't try to understand the minds of criminals. You'll be taken in.

They say that fools learn from their experiences, while the wise learn from history.

I don't like to lump people together when I speak, since everyone is different, but I'll generalize broadly here. I think humans in general are resourceful creatures. We can involuntarily try to avoid our responsibilities.

Humans are social by nature. Languages, letters, currencies, telephones... All the communication tools that exist in the world are there in order to strengthen social nature.

If you want to escape a life where everything you have is constantly taken from you, you can join the people responsible for taking those things away.

Isn't using the net just like using knives for cooking or using paper to write things down? It's not intrisically good or bad. It's just there, so we accept it and use it.

Is it really a "system"? Or more like a huge prison? The Panopticon... A facility that allows you to observe everyone at once. Sibyl is its worst possible form. You can control the maximum number of prisoners with the minimum number of guards.

— By the way, what would you say is the definition of anarchism?
— It's a denial of government and authority, but different from flat-out chaos and disorder.
— That's right. It's about denying an inhuman control system and building a more human system.

When a man faces fear, his soul is tested. What he was born to seek… what he was born to achieve… his true nature will become clear.

In this era, the System determines everyone's aptitudes and we all have no choice but to live by it and be satisfied with whatever "happiness" is forced upon us as we are unable to make our real dreams come true.

Life is nothing but suffering.

To understand Kougami means to think the way he does. To see the world through his eyes. <...> "When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." Kougami stared into the darkness for too long. And he's still staring into it even now. Maybe for him, the only true justice in the world exists solely in the depths of that darkness.