Alex Delarge Quotes

“Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog? Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts;I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange