Here are the best phrases from A Clockwork Orange, a dystopian novel written by Anthony Burgess and published in 1962, best known for its film adaptation by Stanley Kubrik (1971). The writing of the book is characterized by being written in a jargon based on Russian, known as Nadsat.
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English book cover: A Clockwork Orange. Source: Wikimedia Commons by Christopher Dombres, via Wikimedia Commons-Perhaps the man who chooses evil is in some way better than the one on whom good is imposed. -Chaplain of the prison.
-I see what is right and I approve, but what I do is wrong. -Dr. Brodsky.
-It's funny how colors in the real world only seem true when you see them on a screen. -Alex.
-And where am I in all this? Am I an animal or a dog? (…) Am I just a clockwork orange? -Alex.
-Civilized my syphilitic yarblocks. -Alex.
-The world can't be full of people like me -Alex.
-And there I was, that's Alex, and my three droogs, it's Pete, Georgie and Dim, and we were sitting at the Korova dairy bar, trying to decide with our rasudoques what to do in the afternoon. -Alex.
-The Korova dairy bar sold milk added with velocet, synthemesco or dremcrom, which is what we are drinking. These sharpen your senses and leave you ready for some old ultraviolence. -Alex.
-Do you have some new kind of torture for me, you, brachno? -Alex.
-The initiative reaches those who wait. -Alex.
-You are naughty, naughty, naughty, you dirty suck. -Alex.
-He is young, brave and violent. Brodsky will take care of him tomorrow and you can sit and watch Brodksy. If everything goes well, you won't have to worry about that. We will transform young ruffian so much that he will be unrecognizable. -Minister of the Interior.
"You don't need to take it further, sir." It has shown me that all this ultraviolence and murder is wrong, wrong, terribly wrong. I've learned my lesson, sir. I've seen what I've never been able to before. I am cured! Praise Bogo! I am cured! -Alex.
-They're a bunch of idiots, they sell their birthright for a bowl of lentils! For the thrill of stealing! To practice violence! To live easy! Well, I ask you, is it worth it when there is undeniable truth, indisputable evidence that hell exists? - Prison chaplain.
-He has no decision-making capacity, does he? Selfishness, fear of physical pain led him to that grotesque act of self-humiliation. His insincerity was clear. He ceased to be a criminal, but he also ceased to be a creature capable of moral choices. - Prison chaplain.
- What natural right makes you believe that you can give orders and hit me when you want? Yarboclos I tell him, and I'm going to put the chain in the glazes when I yelled Ay! -Dim.
-Suddenly I realized that thinking is for the sad and that the omnious have inspiration and what the Lord commands. -Alex.
-I see you have some books under your arm, brother. Really, it's a rare pleasure these days to bump into someone who still reads, bro. -Alex.
-It is so inhuman to be totally good as it is totally evil. –Anthony Burgess (Introduction).
-We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot erase it. –Anthony Burgess (Introduction).
-The common people are willing to tolerate everything, yes. He is able to sell freedom for a little peace of mind. -Mr. F. Alexander.
-Being good can be something horrible. -Chaplain of the prison.
-If fear in your heart, oh brother, I beg you to discard it right now. -Alex.
-Being young is like being one of those evil machines. -Alex.
-When I opened the door my heart went to the carpet. -Alex.
- I'm everyone's friend. Except from my enemies. -Alex.
-Goodness comes from within. Kindness is a choice. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. -Chaplain of the prison.
-How are you, bottle of cheap cooking oil? Come closer, I'll give you one in the yarblocks, if you have them, greasy eunuch. -Alex.
-A good and clean book, brother, is the most beautiful thing in the world. -Alex.
"The mere fact that the police have not caught you lately does not mean, as you well know, that you have not been committing some misdeeds." -PR Deltoid.
-The important thing is the moral choice. Evil has to exist alongside good for that moral choice to occur. Life is sustained thanks to the bitter opposition of moral entities. -Anthony Burgess (Introduction).
-The human being is endowed with free will, and can choose between good and evil. If you can only do good or can only do bad, you will be nothing more than a clockwork orange. -Anthony Burgess (Introduction).
-It is always difficult to set limits. The world is one, and life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly activity participates in some measure of violence; for example, the act of love, or music. -Dr. Brodsky.
"You don't have to protest, boy." You chose, and this is the result of your choice. What comes now is what you chose yourself. -Chaplain of the prison.
-Care what you say, oh Dim, if you really want to continue living. -Alex.
-What does God want? The good or that one choose the path of good? -Chaplain of the prison.
-The violence without sense is a prerogative of the youth; oozes energy but lacks constructive talent. -Anthony Burgess.
-The streets have to be kept clean, and in different ways. -Billyboy.
-The prison showed him the unctuous hands of hypocrisy, the low and obsequious smile… But those are subtleties. We are not interested in motives, superior ethics, we just want to eliminate crime. -Dr. Brodsky.
-The day was very different from the night. The night was mine and my droogs, and all the rest of the nadsats, and the bourgeois neighborhoods crouched between four walls, absorbing the world programs glup. -Alex.
-I could clearly videotape myself running on very light and mysterious walnuts, cutting all the litso to the crichant world with my sharp Britba. And the slow movement and the beautiful song of the last movement were still missing. -Alex.
-Come on, kill me, you cowardly bastards. I don't want to live anyway… not in a stinky world like this. -Indigent.
-In a way being young is like being an animal. No, it is not as an animal, but one of those malenco dolls that they sell in the streets, small tin cellovecos with a spring inside. -Alex.
-They were probably in the dirty slovos part, before starting a nasty bit of ultraviolence.
-What I do I do because I like it. -Alex.