{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/its-one-of-those",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/its-one-of-those.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/its-one-of-those.md",
  "id": "19bba4da-da17-42d1-9c4b-0d371966d7c3",
  "slug": "its-one-of-those",
  "text": "It’s one of those weird truths you learn early on as police that quite a high percentage of the public have all the survival instinct of a moth in a candle factory. They run the wrong way, they refuse to move, some will run toward the danger, and others will instantly whip out their phones and take footage.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Ben Aaronovitch",
    "slug": "ben-aaronovitch",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "False Value",
    "slug": "false-value",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": 12,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "humor",
      "slug": "humor",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
    },
    {
      "name": "stupidity",
      "slug": "stupidity",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
    },
    {
      "name": "instinct",
      "slug": "instinct",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/instinct"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#False_Value_(2020)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:32",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "fd8ca75c-4bd0-433a-97ab-f07e12887e0f",
      "slug": "after-that-i-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/after-that-i-was",
      "text": "After that I was up and ready for action. It might have been a Saturday, but below the rank of chief inspector weekends are an entirely notional concept.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 238,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "work",
          "slug": "work",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#False_Value_(2020)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "fc202a3c-0e1f-4472-9859-dda16f1e1c17",
      "slug": "there-were-a-couple",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/there-were-a-couple",
      "text": "There were a couple of mentions of drones, but the assumption was that they were operated by the police, the gangs, space lizards or all three at once. The media were continuing their comforting lack of interest in things that didn’t fit their various agendas.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 139,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "media",
          "slug": "media",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/media"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#False_Value_(2020)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "f0be0309-53f7-4edb-8540-28367a66dc06",
      "slug": "hed-obviously-wanted",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/hed-obviously-wanted",
      "text": "He’d obviously wanted to tell someone about it for a long time and I was a convenient ear.\n\nI get that a lot. Stephanopoulos calls it my secret weapon.\n\n“It’s that vacant expression,” she said. “People just want to fill the empty void.”",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 158,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "conversation",
          "slug": "conversation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#False_Value_(2020)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:33"
    }
  ]
}