"Who can gaze into the mirror without bec…" — Motoko Kusanagi Quote

"Just as water runs downhill, the human heart also tends to revert to its basest instincts."

— Hideo Kuze · Ghost in the Shell

"There has never been a report about a stomach ache or any other related medical trauma from swallowing your pride."

— Daisuke Aramaki · Ghost in the Shell

"All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."

— Puppet Master · Ghost in the Shell

"It's not like I had aspirations to be a hero or anything. However, I'm positive we followed a code of justice that all of us believed in without condition or compromise."

— Togusa · Ghost in the Shell

"Life perpetuates itself through diversity, and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die, obliterating an entire set of memory and information. Only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system."

— Puppet Master · Ghost in the Shell

"There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience."

— Motoko Kusanagi · Ghost in the Shell