# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, False Value

> 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.

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [False Value](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value.md)
- Page: 12
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#False_Value_(2020)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/its-one-of-those

## More from this book

> Miss Karmargi who’d been my Religious Education teacher at school. An avowed atheist who’d once said that she respected all religions equally—“which is more than can be said for most religions,” she’d added.

p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/miss-karmargi-whod.md)

> 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.

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/after-that-i-was.md)

> 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.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/there-were-a-couple.md)