Quotes from the Movie A Clockwork Orange

"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?'"

Alex

"There was a man. . .a writer of subversive literature."

Minister of the Interior

ìPadre, these are subtleties. Weíre 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.î

Minister of the Interior

"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."

Minister of the Interior

ìThe common people will let it go. Oh yes, theyíll sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!î

Mr. Alexander

I've just come from the hospital; your victim has died.

P.R. Deltoid

It'll be your own torture. I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

P.R. Deltoid

ìWe study the problem. Weíve been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. Youíve got a good home here, good loving parents. Youíve got not too bad of a brain! Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?î

P.R. Deltoid

"What's it going to be then, eh?"

Prison Chaplain

"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."

Prison Chaplain

"If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."

Prison Chaplain

"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?"

Prison Chaplain

ìChoice. 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.î

Prison Chaplain

"Yo, yo, yo. øQuÈ hay de mi? øDÛnde entro en todo esto? øSoy un animal, o un perro? øNo soy m·s que una naranja mec·nica?"

Una naranja mec·nica

"Todo esto lo digo en serio, oh hermanos mios, pero lo que hago lo hago porque me gusta"

Una naranja mec·nica