"A Clockwork Orange" Quotes

What’s it going to be then, eh?

The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds.

There was no real choice, then, he said, as if to himself.

Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder.