"All things change in a dynamic environme…" — Puppet Master Quote

"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

"Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it."

— Motoko Kusanagi · Ghost in the Shell

"That's all it is: information. Even a simulated experience or a dream"

— Batou · Ghost in the Shell

"And can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?"

— Puppet Master · Ghost in the Shell

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

— Hideo Kuze · Ghost in the Shell