Die schönsten Zitate von Anthony Burgess

Kolonialismus - die gewaltsame Verbreitung der Vernunft. Aber wer verbreitet sie unter denen, die kolonisieren?

When we pray we admit defeat.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Jedes Korn Erfahrung ist Nahrung für die gierig wachsende Seele eines Künstlers.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Lache, und die Welt wird mit dir lachen. Schnarche, und du wirst alleine schlafen.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic 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.

If 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.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

The 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.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?