“…He’d believed that in the final analysis, there were only two kinds of human beings: the lucky ones and the unlucky ones. The lucky ones sucked the life out of those around them and only grew stronger. The unlucky ones were condemned to lose everything and spend the remainder of their days slinking the lower depths.” StrengthLuckyUnlucky Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion
“The flower had unexpectedly fallen to the ground at their feet. Rather than picking it up and loving it, they would rather trample it into the mud. Countless numbers had become slaves to that kind of perverse pleasure.” PleasureFlowerSlavePerverse Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“Unshackled freedom’ did not mean doing whatever a person felt like without outside interference. To take up the reins of freedom, it was necessary to respect the rule of law and to cooperate. Otherwise, a person could cry ‘freedom’ until he was blue in the face and his ideals would remain idle visions.” LawFreedomRespectIdealsCooperationVisions Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“That in time good and evil should become accommodated to each other is perhaps only human nature. Take things far enough and evil becomes good. Against the backdrop of such a reality, human character was no doubt likely to come up short as the wheels of reason spun off their bearings.” CharacterHuman NatureGood And Evil Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“Despite all the lily-white publicity campaigns in the world, as long as people existed, the breeding grounds of sin and selfishness would exist. That was the price of being born human.” SinHuman NatureSelfishness Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 2: Destiny Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 2: Destiny
“If he didn’t change, the world around him wouldn’t change either. Nothing would happen. His future was in his own hands, and he had the feeling that right now this was something more than a daydream.” ChangeFutureDaydream Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 2: Destiny Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 2: Destiny
“Simply waiting for life to begin guaranteed that it never would.” LifeWaitingBeginning Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 3: Nightmare Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 3: Nightmare
“Luke snorted with derision. ‘What it comes down to is, they’re just a bunch of horny, fucked up, nouveau riche types. Aside from the fact that we fuck ourselves up on stout instead, there’s no big difference between us and them.” ClassDifferenceSame Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“He was far beyond being fed up with it all, to the point that his simmering irritation was close to boiling over. He would be a slave to no one. No shackles would bind his hands and feet. He would be free, and yet the fetters of the past that he wished to fast aside instead held him fast, an invisible weight burdening his every step.” PastFreedomSlaveBurdenFed UpShackles Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“But one day inexorably followed the next. The mongrels asked nothing of why they were there or why they even existed. The rain fell on the just and the unjust alike. The high and the low. And so without debate, seeking no excuses, they swallowed their delight and anger, sorrow and pleasure, and accepted things as they stood.” AcceptanceEqualityDays Gone By Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 5: Darkness Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 5: Darkness
“Right under their noses was Midas, clad in its gaudy neon robes day and night. The harlot teased at their hearts but would never invite them back inside the citadel.” Upper Class Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“If you’ve got the time to get pissed off about it, then you’ve got the time to get used to it.” Get Used To It Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 2: Destiny Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 2: Destiny