Psycho-Pass Anime Quotes

Justice, and the enforcement of it, has changed. In the 22nd century, Japan enforces the Sibyl System, an objective means of determining the threat level of each citizen by examining their mental state for signs of criminal intent, known as their Psycho-Pass. Inspectors uphold the law by subjugating, often with lethal force, anyone harboring the slightest ill-will; alongside them are Enforcers, jaded Inspectors that have become latent criminals, granted relative freedom in exchange for carrying out the Inspectors' dirty work. Into this world steps Akane Tsunemori, a young woman with an honest desire to uphold justice. However, as she works alongside veteran Enforcer Shinya Kougami, she soon learns that the Sibyl System's judgments are not as perfect as her fellow Inspectors assume. With everything she has known turned on its head, Akane wrestles with the question of what justice truly is, and whether it can be upheld through the use of a system that may already be corrupt.

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Psycho-Pass: It's not the final judgement of "good" and "evil" that's important. What matters is that you come to that decision yourself. That you agonize over it and eventually accept it.

- Akane Tsunemori

Psycho-Pass: I'm sorry. I couldn't keep my promise. I wanted to go into a line of work where I could protect people. That's why I became a detective. But Makishima changed everything. That man will continue to kill people. And yet, the law can't judge him. As long as I'm a detective, I can't touch him. This case made me aware... that the law can't protect people.

- Kougami Shinya

Psycho-Pass: I was the only one who got an A ranking for the Public Safety Bureau. There were more than 500 students and I was the only one. So I thought that there must have been something that only I could do at the Bureau. If I went there, I thought I could find my purpose in life... I thought I'd be able to find out why I was born here and now!

- Akane Tsunemori

Psycho-Pass: As a leader, you need to learn from the mistakes of others, not your own.

- Nobuchika Ginoza

Psycho-Pass: They say that fools learn from their experiences, while the wise learn from history. I hope you're not a fool.

- Nobuchika Ginoza

Psycho-Pass: 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 brand-name product, refined, sheltered maidens, and purchased by men who seek a classic piece of furniture called "a good wife and mother" in a formality known as marriage. Students in this school are all components that will be processed into an artwork called "the lady". They are rough stones waiting to be polished and finished up. They live sad and boring lives, even though there are many other possible ways they could bloom.

- Oryou Rikako

Psycho-Pass: I just long for a world in which ordinary things are done in an ordinary way.

- Makishima Shougo

Psycho-Pass: You disappointed me. So I have to give you a punishment. Regret your helplessness and feel despair.

- Makishima Shougo

Psycho-Pass: This epidemic leads innocent people to their deaths, and yet it's pathogen will never be eradicated. This is a disease called serenity, a form of death that people have wished for.

- Rikako Oryo

Psycho-Pass: An unforeseen situation... An unexpected turn of events... In the face of those, you too will face your true self.

- Makishima Shougo

Psycho-Pass: Everything you've been taught is based on theories and logic. Soon, you'll come to realize how pointless they are.

- Tomomi Masaoka

Psycho-Pass: Flattery will get you everywhere.

- Makishima Shougo

Psycho-Pass: When you entrust so much of your everyday life to those electronic devices, the argument that you aren't a cyborg isn't very convincing. To you, those portable terminals are already your second brain. Isn't that right? It can be said that the history of science is a history of the expansion of the human body's functionality, in other words, the history of man's cyberization. That's why it's a matter of degree.

- Toyohisa Senguji