If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
Anthony Burgess in The Wanting SeedWe're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
GovernmentsAnthony Burgess in The Wanting SeedLaugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony BurgessA perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a p-rnographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.
MasturbationAnthony Burgess in A Clockwork OrangeIf he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork OrangeIt's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork OrangeIt is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork OrangeThe important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
Decisions, Morality & EthicsAnthony Burgess in A Clockwork OrangeWe can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork OrangeIs it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange