01c. 1955 ADIt is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
02c. 1955 ADWe're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
03c. 1955 ADAn eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
04c. 1955 ADIt may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
05c. 1955 ADWhat's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney.'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom?''It can't be helped,' said Dr. Branom. 'Each man kills the thing he loves...Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
06c. 1955 ADMan does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
07c. 1955 ADSenseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
08c. 1955 ADYes yes yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
09c. 1955 ADYouth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
10c. 1955 ADColonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
12c. 1955 ADSome of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
13c. 1955 ADTo be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
14c. 1955 ADThe Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
15c. 1955 ADThe old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
16c. 1955 ADThat's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
17c. 1955 ADOf course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
18c. 1955 ADOur subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. To counter these the subject has to switch to a diametrically opposed attitude.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
19c. 1955 ADDelimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
20c. 1955 ADAnd what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
23c. 1955 ADSuddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
24c. 1955 ADThe 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986Anthony Burgess / quote ↗
