This page contains quotes from the movie A Clockwork Orange . You can find more Alphabetized listing of films for which quotations are available in the index page. Thanks to the many celebrated and unheralded screenwriters who have provided these memorable movie quotes and lines of dialogue.




Quotes from the movie A Clockwork Orange
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~ "Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name -A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?'"~
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~ "There was a man. . .a writer of subversive literature."~
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~ “Padre, these are subtleties. We’re not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime--and. . .with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. He will be your true Christian: ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the very heart at the thought even of killing a fly! Reclamation! Joy before the angels of God! The point is that it works.”~
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~ "Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. He'll do...He's perfect. I want his records sent to me. This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition."~
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~ “The common people will let it go. Oh yes, they’ll sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!”~
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~ I've just come from the hospital; your victim has died.~
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~ It'll be your own torture. I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.~
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~ “We study the problem. We’ve been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You’ve got a good home here, good loving parents. You’ve got not too bad of a brain! Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?”~
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~ "What's it going to be then, eh?"~
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~ "A lot of idiots you are, selling your own birthright for a saucer of cold porridge! The thrill of theft! Of violence! The urge to live easy! Well, I ask you what is it worth when we have undeniable truth, yes, incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists."~
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~ "If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."~
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~ "Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"~
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~ “Choice. The boy has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.”~
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~ "Yo, yo, yo. ¿Qué hay de mi? ¿Dónde entro en todo esto? ¿Soy un animal, o un perro? ¿No soy más que una naranja mecánica?"~
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~ "Todo esto lo digo en serio, oh hermanos mios, pero lo que hago lo hago porque me gusta"~
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