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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Life is nothing but suffering.

— 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.

Let me quote a little more from Max Weber. Bureaucratic administration dominates the people through knowledge. Technical knowledge and practical knowledge. Keeping that knowledge increases their superiority.

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.