“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of the brave malenky selves fighting these big machines?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Civilised my syphilised yarbles.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
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