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Psycho-Pass
A cold, neon-lit cyberpunk crime drama where conscience is measured by number and dread hums beneath orderly streets. Justice feels like a gun that decides for you, glowing in a hand that still trembles.
Psycho-Pass
Psycho-Pass

PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス

12 October 2012 — 13 December 2019 Japan 3 season 41 episode Ended 7.7 (498)

Cast: Kana Hanazawa, Tomokazu Seki, Takahiro Sakurai, Ayane Sakura, Miyuki Sawashiro

Crime Animation Sci-Fi & Fantasy Action & Adventure Free will versus the algorithmic society Justice, law and morality Identity, mental health and stigma Individual versus collective Revenge, obsession and the cost of pursuit

Psycho-Pass — Movie Quotes

Memorable Quotes

I wonder what sort of criteria you use to divide people into good and evil.
— Shogo Makishima

Context

Listed among Makishima's best-known lines in Psycho-Pass quote compilations; his confrontations in season 1.

Meaning

Condenses the series' central challenge to any system that sorts people by number.

Beautiful flowers, too, eventually wither and fall. That's the fate of all living beings.
— Shogo Makishima

Context

Quoted in quote compilations as a Makishima line from season 1.

Meaning

Shows his fatalistic view of life and decay.

I love this game that people call "life" from the bottom of my heart.
— Shogo Makishima

Context

Season 1 line listed in quote compilations.

Meaning

Reveals his playful, detached view of human existence as a game.

Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognised and not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice.
— Shogo Makishima

Context

Quoted in season 1 exchanges between Makishima and Kogami; Kogami replies that he has learned to be wary when someone quotes Pascal.

Meaning

A Pascal quotation used to question how power and justice relate, which is exactly what Sibyl embodies.

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