
A Clockwork Orange

‘But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.’
Anthony Burgess • A Clockwork Orange
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 • A Clockwork Orange
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 brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do.
Anthony Burgess • A Clockwork Orange
Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.’
Anthony Burgess • A Clockwork Orange
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE—and I said: ‘That’s a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?’ Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: ‘—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,
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‘It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there’s no law nor order no more.’